Nature

“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.”

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”

“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”

“You cannot step into the same river twice.”

“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid…

“Swans sing before they die – ’twere no bad thing should certain persons die before…

“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”

“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”

“One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.”

“Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.”

“Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.”

“There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.”

“Nature uses as little as possible of anything.”

“Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.”

“Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.”

“Nature is not human hearted.”

“Shadow owes its birth to light.”

“Earth is a flower and it’s pollinating.”

“In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.”

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”

“The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.”

“God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.”

“There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.”

“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.”

“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”