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 is natural, which is infinite, which
is yes.
Author: e.e. cummings
I've always regarded nature as
the clothing of God.
Author: Alan Hovhaness
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 with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Author: Bertrand Russell
If one way be better than another,
that you may be sure is Nature's way.
Author: Aristotle
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 of them.
Author: Aldo Leopold
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, they seem to move through me.
Author: John Fowles
In wilderness I sense the miracle
of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Author: Charles A. Lindbergh
It is only in the country that
we can get to know a person or a book.
Author: Cyril Connolly
Let us permit nature to have
her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Author: Michel de Montaigne
Nature is full of genius, full
of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Nature is the art of God.
Author: Thomas Browne
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.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Nature, to be commanded, must
be obeyed.
Author: Francis Bacon
Never does nature say one thing
and wisdom another.
Author: Juvenal
Once you have heard the lark,
known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made
ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the
cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back.
Author: Gwyn Thomas
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
Author: William Wordsworth
One touch of nature makes the
whole world kin.
Author: William Shakespeare
When men come to like a sea-life,
they are not fit to live on land.
Author: Samuel Johnson
You can't be suspicious of a
tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology
of a violet.
Author: Hal Borland
You must not know too much or
be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft;
a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps
your enjoyment of these things.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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