- Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. Wilson
- The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Tennessee Williams
- Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Mao Zedong
- A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
Anne Bronte
- Behind every cloud is another cloud.
Judy Garland
- Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
James Montgomery
- Moonlight is sculpture.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
- Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can’t get away from it.
Christopher Heyerdahl
- If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
Bill Watterson
- Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot
- 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
- The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.
Rebecca Harding Davis
- Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Hippocrates
- 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
- Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
Henri Rousseau
- The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
Saint Teresa of Avila
- 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
- Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
Thomas Tusser
- I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.
Pablo Neruda
- A forest bird never wants a cage.
Henrik Ibsen
- Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
John Webster
- I am two with nature.
Woody Allen
- The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Vladimir Nabokov
- And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Elizabeth Appell
- Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
Edward Young
- Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
Anton Chekhov
- When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Joseph Joubert
- Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Albert Schweitzer
- 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
- I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Georgia O’Keeffe
- What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
Emil Cioran
- The mountains are calling and I must go.
John Muir
- Camping is nature’s way of promoting the motel business.
Dave Barry
- The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
Diogenes
- Nature hasn’t gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.
Bjork
- Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Luigi Pirandello
- Swans sing before they die – ’twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
Ambrose Bierce
- Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Duke Ellington
- Nature is wont to hide herself.
Heraclitus
- I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
Muhammad Iqbal
- We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Jules Verne
- I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa Cather
- I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
Joyce Kilmer
- What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
Plautus
- Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Thomas Campbell
- Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
Joyce Carol Oates