| Quote 25 | A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. |
| Quote 39 | Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? |
| Quote 48 | A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. |
| Quote 60 | A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. |
| Quote 96 | Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. |
| Quote 100 | Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. |
| Quote 107 | Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. |
| Quote 112 | Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. |
| Quote 120 | Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. |
| Quote 135 | All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. |
| Quote 169 | All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. |
| Quote 187 | A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. |
| Quote 216 | A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the... |
| Quote 237 | And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything... |
| Quote 462 | All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. |
| Quote 923 | And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. |
| Quote 1134 | How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! |
| Quote 1713 | One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. |
| Quote 1775 | Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. |
| Quote 4817 | Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. |
| Quote 5133 | Nature is wont to hide herself.
- Heraclitus |
| Quote 7091 | Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. |
| Quote 7533 | In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. |
| Quote 7715 | There are always flowers for those who want to see them. |
| Quote 7733 | There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. |
| Quote 7800 | It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. |
| Quote 7813 | Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
- Francis Bacon |
| Quote 7875 | I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. |
| Quote 7878 | Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. |
| Quote 7892 | There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. |
| Quote 7899 | Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. |
| Quote 7916 | The poetry of the earth is never dead.
- John Keats |
| Quote 7917 | Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. |
| Quote 7921 | I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. |
| Quote 7972 | People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. |
| Quote 7981 | Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! |
| Quote 7989 | Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. |
| Quote 7995 | I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which ... |
| Quote 8055 | Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. |
| Quote 8174 | 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 i... |
| Quote 8231 | Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. |
| Quote 8252 | Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wai... |
| Quote 8268 | To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. |
| Quote 8280 | If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. |
| Quote 8300 | Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. |
| Quote 8420 | To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. |
| Quote 8455 | Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. |
| Quote 8474 | There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. |
| Quote 8500 | Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. |
| Quote 8658 | Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneat... |
| Quote 8740 | I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, ... |
| Quote 8812 | Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and t... |
| Quote 8825 | Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inani... |
| Quote 8843 | What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. |
| Quote 8866 | Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person. |
| Quote 8963 | The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. |
| Quote 9081 | Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. |
| Quote 9100 | I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. |
| Quote 9133 | Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art... |
| Quote 9144 | The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. |
| Quote 9152 | Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in Decem... |
| Quote 9237 | I am two with nature.
- Woody Allen |
| Quote 9248 | Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. |
| Quote 9306 | The groves were God's first temples.
- William C. Bryant |
| Quote 9343 | The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. |
| Quote 9353 | 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 o... |
| Quote 9401 | We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. |
| Quote 9423 | I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk ... |
| Quote 9471 | 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. |
| Quote 9506 | Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. |
| Quote 9562 | In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. |
| Quote 9679 | I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. |
| Quote 9693 | I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Quote 9711 | Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. |
| Quote 9769 | Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watchin... |
| Quote 9915 | People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forge... |
| Quote 9931 | Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his f... |
| Quote 10083 | Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. |
| Quote 10135 | I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. |
| Quote 10145 | Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and child... |
| Quote 10246 | 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. |
| Quote 10360 | In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. |
| Quote 10363 | The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. |
| Quote 10381 | For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. |
| Quote 10437 | My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It h... |
| Quote 10475 | What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. |
| Quote 10478 | In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, ... |
| Quote 10509 | Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only diffe... |
| Quote 10531 | We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. |
| Quote 10545 | The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. |
| Quote 10607 | Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. |
| Quote 10622 | Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about fi... |
| Quote 10644 | Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. |
| Quote 10687 | We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. |
| Quote 10735 | Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. |
| Quote 10839 | It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. |
| Quote 10850 | Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. |
| Quote 10873 | I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. |
| Quote 10874 | I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. |
| Quote 10903 | For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutw... |
| Quote 10964 | 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 ... |
| Quote 11086 | There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. |
| Quote 11127 | To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. |
| Quote 11170 | Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. |
| Quote 11295 | I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. |
| Quote 11303 | Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. |
| Quote 11367 | Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake... |
| Quote 11405 | Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. |
| Quote 11432 | Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. |
| Quote 11469 | Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we ... |
| Quote 11528 | 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, th... |
| Quote 11647 | 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 tha... |
| Quote 11692 | The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing... |
| Quote 11874 | Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. |
| Quote 11895 | Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be ... |
| Quote 11941 | The mountains are calling and I must go.
- John Muir |
| Quote 11951 | Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" |
| Quote 11985 | One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose g... |
| Quote 11993 | Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the ... |
| Quote 11995 | A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. |
| Quote 12051 | You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. |
| Quote 12118 | That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. |
| Quote 12137 | I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. |
| Quote 12138 | The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau |
| Quote 12173 | The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. |
| Quote 12176 | Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. |
| Quote 12180 | I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. |
| Quote 12370 | It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. |
| Quote 12410 | Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." |
| Quote 12449 | Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to ... |
| Quote 12462 | The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. |
| Quote 12579 | Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. |
| Quote 12606 | 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 climb... |
| Quote 12632 | Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. |
| Quote 12670 | I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. |
| Quote 12714 | If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. |
| Quote 12769 | Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. |
| Quote 12828 | Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. |
| Quote 12854 | Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. |
| Quote 12891 | The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. |
| Quote 12932 | Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. |
| Quote 12944 | Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Quote 12993 | 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. |
| Quote 12999 | Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. |
| Quote 13020 | I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to ... |
| Quote 13085 | To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. |
| Quote 13103 | One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. |
| Quote 13106 | Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. |
| Quote 13168 | The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just a... |
| Quote 13278 | What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't wa... |
| Quote 13281 | My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order p... |
| Quote 13333 | Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. |
| Quote 13372 | I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. |
| Quote 13427 | Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. |
| Quote 13477 | He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. |
| Quote 13493 | Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. |
| Quote 13515 | When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. |
| Quote 13570 | Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams. |
| Quote 13629 | There is no forgiveness in nature.
- Ugo Betti |
| Quote 13664 | To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. |
| Quote 13785 | When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. |
| Quote 13830 | The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. |
| Quote 13896 | Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. |
| Quote 13918 | When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. |
| Quote 13926 | The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and on... |
| Quote 13971 | There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. |
| Quote 14065 | And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. |