Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. – George Eliot
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. – Roger Miller
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. – John Muir
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
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. – Toni Morrison
I am two with nature. – Woody Allen
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. – Anton Chekhov
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. – William Hazlitt
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. – Jules Verne
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. – Hal Borland
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. – Ansel Adams
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy – your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. – Annie Leibovitz
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. – Gustave Flaubert
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. – Carl Sandburg
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. – Dag Hammarskjold
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. – Hal Borland
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. – Edward Steichen
