The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. – David Herbert Lawrence

Nothing is so beautiful as spring – when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush Thrushs eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe