You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. – St. Bernard
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. – John Burroughs
Nature is the art of God. – Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, 1635
The moon quotes the sun, the rivers quote the trees, and trees quote the breeze. – Terri Guillemets
Nature never goes out of style. – Anonymous
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. – Walt Whitman
I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn. – W.H. Hudson, The Book of a Naturalist, 1919
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anais Nin
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. – Helen Keller
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. – Socrates
There are always flowers for those who want to see them. – Henri Matisse
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. – Winston Churchill
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. – William Wordsworth
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. – Aristotle
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. – Carl Sagan
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. – Leo Buscaglia
The mountains are calling and I must go. – John Muir
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. – Frederick Douglass