I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. – John Muir
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. – Anne Bronte
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. – Jules Verne
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. – Pam Brown
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. – Walter Scott
Nature is wont to hide herself. – Heraclitus
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. – Rupert Brooke
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. – Jean Paul
The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations – each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony. – Ruth Bernhard
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. – Diane Ackerman
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. – Wendell Berry
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. – Mao Zedong
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. – Hamlin Garland
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. – Georges Simenon
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. – Theodore Roethke
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams. – Gilbert White
Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. – William Bartram
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view. – William Bartram
