Thomas Jefferson
“There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.”
Alphonse Karr
“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have…
Jean Ingelow
“The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.”
Walter Scott
“Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on…
Francis Bacon
“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses…
e. e. cummings
“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.”
E. O. Wilson
“When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them…
H. G. Wells
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Moonlight is sculpture.”
Walter Gilbert
“We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.”
Edward Young
“Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.”
Edward Gibbon
“The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but…
Walter Hagen
“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to…
Mary Webb
“Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.”
Wallace Stevens
“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
Guillaume Apollinaire
“Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature’s monotony.”
Ugo Betti
“There is no forgiveness in nature.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
“Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.”
William Cowper
“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”
William Christopher Handy
“Nature was my kindergarten.”
James Lovelock
“Sadly, it’s much easier to create a desert than a forest.”
H. P. Lovecraft
“Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.”
Bjork
“Nature hasn’t gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so…
Emily Carr
“Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
“A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.”
Michael Pollan
“A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.”
Zhuangzi
“I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I…
Emil Cioran
“What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?”