Rainer Maria RilkeIt was for the best, so Nature had no choice but to do it. Richard DawkinsTo sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. William WordsworthThe foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. Anne FrankEvery dewdrop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it. Now we’re beating it to death. Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. John LubbockForget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Georgia O’KeeffeFew places in this world are more dangerous than home. Chinese proverbFire tests gold, suffering tests brave men. Anne Frank The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. I was determined to know beans. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. Ralph Waldo EmersonI am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. Barry CommonerLet us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
Wendell BerryIf you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. Touchstone argues that Corin seems “wicked” since he’s never been exposed to good manners of the court. Throughout As You Like It, Shakespeare continually plays with the dichotomy between country and city life as well as nature and artifice, demonstrating the virtues and vices of each to reveal a larger, truer picture of both.Touchstone, a clown in Duke Frederick’s court, and Corin, a shepherd of Ardenne, compare life in the court with life in the countryside. René DescartesNature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Nature has great healing powers and beauty.
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. Henry David ThoreauThose who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Walt WhitmanWe are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Nathaniel HawthorneTo find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring — these are some of the rewards of the simple life. The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. Daniel QuinnMaybe kissing is sort of like nature’s coffee. Celia states that Touchstone, like all fools, has been sent by nature to interrupt them to sharpen their wits. George R.R. Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. Matshona Dhliwayo Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children. C. S. LewisIn the woods is perpetual youth. Vincent Van GoghStudy nature, love nature, stay close to nature. What if I knew I would never see it again?’. John MuirNever does nature say one thing and wisdom another. Standing BearNature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. Robert BrowningNo spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.