1. I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees. - Pablo Neruda
2. Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. - Doug Larson
3. Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. - Joseph Conrad
4. This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. - Joseph Conrad
5. A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. - Hal Borland
6. You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. - Hal Borland
7. Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. - Hal Borland
8. What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? - Emil Cioran
9. Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Andersen
10. Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! - Wallace Stevens
11. The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. - Wallace Stevens
12. On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. - Jules Renard
13. I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. - Annie Leibovitz
14. Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. - Annie Leibovitz
15. Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer. - Andy Goldsworthy
16. Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality. - Andy Goldsworthy
17. It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. - Cyril Connolly
18. Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. - Guru Nanak
19. Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again. - Gustav Mahler
20. With the coming of spring, I am calm again. - Gustav Mahler
21. Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. - William Cowper
22. I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. - Willa Cather
23. A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. - Anne Bronte
24. A forest bird never wants a cage. - Henrik Ibsen
25. I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. - E. B. White
26. Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises. - Emily Carr
27. And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch's by the thorns. - Thomas Moore
28. What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. - Werner Heisenberg
29. Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison. - Bjork
30. The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. - Matsuo Basho
31. All nature wears one universal grin. - Henry Fielding
32. Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. - John Lubbock
33. Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. - John Lubbock
34. Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven. - John Lubbock
35. Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. - Antonio Porchia
36. Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. - John Updike
37. Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. - Theodore Roethke
38. Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. - Theodore Roethke
39. Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. - Lucy Maud Montgomery
40. What's a butterfly garden without butterflies? - Roy Rogers
41. Nature is a petrified magic city. - Novalis
42. In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. - Aldo Leopold
43. What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? - Pedro Calderon de la Barca
44. Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. - Pedro Calderon de la Barca
45. These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. - Pedro Calderon de la Barca
46. The groves were God's first temples. - William Cullen Bryant
47. The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at. - William Cullen Bryant
48. There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by. - William Cullen Bryant
49. Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring? - William Cullen Bryant
50. The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight. - William Cullen Bryant
51. Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. - William Cullen Bryant
52. The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. - Vladimir Nabokov
53. The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money. - Plautus
54. Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. - Don Marquis
55. People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. - Iris Murdoch
56. The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. - Havelock Ellis
57. During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. - John James Audubon
58. He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
59. Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. - Matthew Arnold
60. Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. - Luigi Pirandello
61. Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. - Alexander Smith
62. The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. - Eric Berne
63. Read nature; nature is a friend to truth. - Edward Young
64. Nature was my kindergarten. - William Christopher Handy
65. One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star. - Loren Eiseley .
66. I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. - Hamlin Garland
67. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy. - Hamlin Garland
68. My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. - Hamlin Garland
69. What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
70. Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star. - Paul Dirac
71. I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod. - Helen Hunt Jackson
72. Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills. - Radhanath Swami
73. Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. - Samuel Daniel
74. The stars that have most glory have no rest. - Samuel Daniel
75. If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. - Luther Burbank
76. Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. - Hosea Ballou
77. Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. - Sinclair Lewis
78. Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. - Josiah Gilbert Holland
79. Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. - William Bartram
80. My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, cheerfully meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view. - William Bartram
81. To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. - Auguste Rodin
82. Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light. - Joyce Carol Oates
83. The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. - Jean Giraudoux
84. And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun. - Roy Bean
85. And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. - Roy Bean
86. Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. - Bhumibol Adulyadej
87. There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. - Alfred Austin
88. Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. - Diane Ackerman
89. Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue. - Thomas Campbell
90. Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. - Roger Miller
91. The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only. - Joseph Wood Krutch
92. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives. - Ann Voskamp
93. The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. - Georges Simenon
94. There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. - Don DeLillo
95. Light in Nature creates the movement of colors. - Robert Delaunay
96. Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. - Russell Baker
97. Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. - Philip James Bailey
98. I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. - Norman MacCaig
99. A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. - Carl Reiner
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