1. By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. - Thomas Merton 

2. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. - Alice Walker 

3. The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. - Zora Neale Hurston 

4. The poetry of the earth is never dead. - John Keats 

5. It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. - Aesop 

6. Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature. - Neil deGrasse Tyson 

7. To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. - Jane Austen 

8. The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. - Galileo Galilei 

9. As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. - Woody Allen 

10. I am two with nature. - Woody Allen 

11. It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. - Robert Louis Stevenson 

12. The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. - Saint Teresa of Avila 

13. Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. - H. P. Lovecraft 

14. Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. - H. P. Lovecraft 

15. But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. - H. P. Lovecraft 

16. Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. - Michel de Montaigne 

17. Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. - Mao Zedong 

18. Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross 

19. The view of Earth is spectacular. - Sally Ride 

20. I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. - Georgia O'Keeffe 

21. The Amen of nature is always a flower. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 

22. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. - Richard Bach 

23. To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. - George Santayana 

24. Nature is the art of God. - Dante Alighieri 

25. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. - Claude Monet 

26. I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. - Claude Monet 

27. Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

28. Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. - Kin Hubbard 

29. A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower. - Kin Hubbard 

30. Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. - Henry Ward Beecher 

31. There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. - R. Buckminster Fuller 

32. Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. - R. Buckminster Fuller 

33. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. - John Ruskin 

34. The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. - John Ruskin 

35. It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. - John Ruskin 

36. Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. - Ansel Adams 

37. Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second. - Mattie Stepanek 

38. As the twig is bent the tree inclines. - Virgil 

39. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. - Toni Morrison 

40. Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. - Ambrose Bierce 

41. Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond. - Ambrose Bierce 

42. The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. - Thomas Carlyle 

43. I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. - Wendell Berry 

44. There are always flowers for those who want to see them. - Henri Matisse 

45. Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder. - Carl Sandburg 

46. The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it. - Christopher Columbus 

47. Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? - Rose Kennedy 

48. Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. - Arthur C. Clarke 

49. How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. - Arthur C. Clarke 

50. Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. - H. G. Wells 

51. The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. - Tennessee Williams 

52. There is the sky, which is all men's together. - Euripides 

53. Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. - Satchel Paige 

54. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. - Jules Verne 

55. The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. - Jules Verne 

56. The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. - Orison Swett Marden 

57. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. - Orison Swett Marden 

58. The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love. - Sitting Bull 

59. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. - E. O. Wilson 

60. Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. - E. O. Wilson 

61. Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. - Dave Barry 

62. Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. - Anthony J. D'Angelo 

63. I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. - John Burroughs 

64. Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. - John Burroughs 

65. How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. - John Burroughs 

66. Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. - Jimmy Carter 

67. In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. - Robert Green Ingersoll 

68. Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. - Will Durant 

69. Nature is neutral. - Adlai Stevenson I 

70. 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W. H. Auden 

71. For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! - Edward Abbey 

72. May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey 

73. Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. - Edward Abbey 

74. Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be. - Joseph B. Wirthlin 

75. The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. - Jacques Yves Cousteau 

76. Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. - Honore de Balzac 

77. Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

78. Moonlight is sculpture. - Nathaniel Hawthorne 

79. Sunlight is painting. - Nathaniel Hawthorne 

80. Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. - Nathaniel Hawthorne 

81. If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. - Bill Watterson 

82. Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. - Dag Hammarskjold 

83. A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. - Samuel Butler 

84. Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. - Samuel Butler 

85. When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. - Joseph Joubert 

86. Behind every cloud is another cloud. - Judy Garland 

87. We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. - William Hazlitt 

88. The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. - Moliere 

89. In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. - Charles Lindbergh 

90. Nature provides exceptions to every rule. - Margaret Fuller 

91. Earth is a flower and it's pollinating. - Neil Young 

92. With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea. - Sylvia Earle 

93. Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. - Truman Capote 

94. The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. - Mary Shelley 

95. I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. - Muhammad Iqbal 

96. Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight. - Daniel Boone 

97. What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? - E. M. Forster 

98. The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. - William Ellery Channing 

99. Sweet April showers do spring May flowers. - Thomas Tusser 

100. Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. - Jean Paul