Nature

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. – Michael Pollan, Second Nature, 1991

I can still smell the green of the grass crushed beneath me. Feel the damp of the dew on my elbows. Hear the birdsong. – Kristina Turner, The Self-Healing Cookbook, 2002, originally published 1987

Nature will not be admired by proxy. – Winston Churchill

If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand. – Buddha

The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore. – Frieda Harris

The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

Innovative capitalists have tried to rewrite nature, but to no avail. – Terri Guillemets, 2007

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. – John Burroughs

A setting sun still whispers a promise for tomorrow. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

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. – Henry David Thoreau

The attraction of variety, contrast, is always invigorating. Nature does not for long allow a sameness of beauty to prevail. – Virginia Garland, “The Rain,” Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the Ne

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. – George Washington Carver

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 can ever learn from books. – John Lubbock

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough to pay attention to the story. – Linda Hogan

In nature answers are given quietly, in the details, just waiting for discovery. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes — every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. – Orison Swett Marden

Nature rejuvenates so quickly, so completely. Though we often view ourselves otherwise, we are nature. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Progress of Culture”

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. – e.e. cummings

I walked barefoot — the only way to walk on a muddy road. – Laurie Gough, “Light on a Moonless Night”