"To create a little flower is the labor of ages." ~ William Blake
My beloved is the mountains, the solitary wooded valleys, strange islands... silent music. ~ St. John of the Cross
The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness. ~ Emily Dickinson
Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint. ~ Robert Frost
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness. ~ Samuel Johnson
The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Give me a spark of Nature's fire. That's all the learning I desire. ~ Robert Burns
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. ~ Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Heine's Pictures of Travel
At twilight nature becomes a wonderfully suggestive effect, and is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. ~ Oscar Wilde, Works of Oscar Wilde
It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it. ~ Helen Caldicott, If You Love This Planet
In the woods is perpetual youth. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas. ~ Wallace Stevens, Adagia
We must return to nature and nature's god. ~ Luther Burbank
Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it. ~ Paul Gauguin
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. ~ Maria Mitchell, Life, letters, and journals
Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands—a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace, and above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world. ~ Sidney Lovett