Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace
will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will
blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy,
while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
- John Muir
An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
- Henry David Thoreau
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses
put in order.
- John Burroughs
Nature never hurries. Atom by atom, little by little she
achieves her work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
April has put a spirit of youth in everything!
- William Shakespeare
If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or
burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in
silence, what wonder and expectation there would be
in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In summer, the song sings itself.
- William Carlos Williams
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun. I will touch a hundred
flowers and not pick one.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
My profession is to always find God in nature.
- Henry David Thoreau
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and
the stars; you have a right to be here.
- Desiderata
Keep your sense of proportion by regularly, preferably daily,
visiting the natural world.
- Catlin Matthews
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon the verdant green
hills is the most perfect refreshment.
- Jane Austin
All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness
within.
- Horace Friess
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad
with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
- Iris Murdoch
Love comes fortth like sunshine after rain.
- Shakespeare
Summer afternoon . . . summer afternoon - the two most beautiful
words in the English language.
- Henry James
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.
- Marya Mannes
The morning of life is like the dawn of a day, full of purity, visions,
and harmony.
- Chateubriand
I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft
green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil.
- Vincent van Gogh
Whoever loves and understands a garden will find contentment
within.
- Chinese Proverb
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 watching the clouds float across the sky is by no means
a waste of time.
- J. Lubbuck
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the
breaking of new blooms.
- Truman Capote
The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase
these things with money.
- Plautis
I am in love with the green earth.
- Charles Lamb
I think it annoys God if you walk by the color purple in a field
and don't notice.
- Alice Walker
From "The Color Purple"
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and
that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple
beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace
in all troubles.
- Anne Frank
Some of nature's most exquisite handiwork is on a miniature
scale, as anyone knows who has applied a magnifying glass
to a snowflake.
- Rachel Carson
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains
of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and
spring after the winter.
- Rachel Carson
The Sense of Wonder
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must
carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world will never starve for wonder, but only for want of
wonder.
- G.K. Chesterson
The rich fire of the orange sunset gloriously announces the
coming night.
- Susan S. Florence
Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.
- Dorothy Parker
When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the
bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what
sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sounds of the wind or sounds of the sea
Make me happy just to be.
- June Polis
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the
wide world's joy.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Nature is the art of God.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor
and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
- Carl Sandburg
Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light
in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
- Mathew Arnold
The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God is the friend of silence. Trees, flowers, grass grow in
silence. See the stars, moon, and sun, how they move
in silence.
- Mother Teresa
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
- Thornton Wilder
Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful.
It is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome
it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be like the bird, who halting in his flight on limb too slight,
feels it give way beneath him, yet sings knowing he
hath wings.
- Victor Hugo
The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you . . . you
can feel it.
- Ted Trueblood
Each moment of the year has its own beauty . . . a picture
which was never before and shall never be seen again.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers are like human beings . . . they thrive on a little
kindness.
- Fred Streeter
After a thundershower, the weather takes a pledge and signs
it with a rainbow.
- Thomas Bailey Aldric
Meandering in a shady stream,
it can make a home for green growing things.
- Peggy Wayburn
If one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is
too few.
- William Wordsworth
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our
understandings and our hearts.
- William Hazlett
The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm
the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me
in total freedom.
- Scott Holman
The meadow: green in spring, gold in summer, brown in fall,
white in winter, everlasting, ever-changing...
How easy and simple it is to live enjoyably when the simple interminable blue of the sky, with its long wisps of white
clouds, become a pleasant thing to behold, a thing of
beauty that thrills you every time you care to look skyward.
- John Schindler
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