Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Sunlight is painting.”
John Ruskin
“Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun…
Sitting Bull
“The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results…
Robert Fortune
“One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.”
William Blake
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
O. Henry
“We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but…
Roy Rogers
“What’s a butterfly garden without butterflies?”
Plautus
“The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things…
Henry David Thoreau
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking…
Anatole France
“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.”
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
“The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.”
Michel de Montaigne
“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we…
Roy Bean
“And finally Winter, with its bitin’, whinin’ wind, and all the land will be mantled…
Carl Sagan
“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.”
William Hazlitt
“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”
James M. Barrie
“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide…
Saadi
“The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.”
Lao Tzu
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
Walter Scott
“We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.”
Satchel Paige
“Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.”
R. Buckminster Fuller
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”
Theodore Roethke
“Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the…
Blaise Pascal
“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by…
Hal Borland
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”
Marilyn French
“Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.”
Socrates
“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of…