"To create a little flower is the labor of ages." ~ William Blake
My beloved is the mountains, the solitary wooded valleys, strange islands... silent music. ~ St. John of the Cross
The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness. ~ Emily Dickinson
Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint. ~ Robert Frost
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness. ~ Samuel Johnson
The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Give me a spark of Nature's fire. That's all the learning I desire. ~ Robert Burns
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. ~ Heinrich Heine
At twilight nature becomes a wonderfully suggestive effect, and is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. ~ Oscar Wilde
It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it. ~ Helen Caldicott, If You Love This Planet
In the woods is perpetual youth. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson