"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."
Robert Browning
"A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule."
Michael Pollan
"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."
Joseph Joubert
"All nature wears one universal grin."
Henry Fielding
"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."
Margaret Mead
"The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness
is important to the quality of life of humans."
Jim Fowler
"A tree is an incomprehensible mystery."
Jim Woodring
"Mother Nature is not sweet."
John Shelby Spong
"Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality."
Andy Goldsworthy
"I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch."
Ella Maillart
"I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled."
Lord Mountbatten
"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure."
David Herbert Lawrence
"Well, I'm nearly up on the moon and didn't need a rocket."
Patsy Cline
"The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity."
Eric Hoffer
"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
Victor Hugo
"Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over."
Robert Falcon Scott
"This life is like a swimming pool.
You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is."
Dennis Rodman
"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was."
Toni Morrison
"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."
William Hazlitt
"The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it."
Chief Joseph
"With an ocean between you and your European friends,
you have to keep them in your heart."
Sammy Davis, Jr.
"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."
George Santayana
"Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking."
Gustav Mahler
"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."
W. Somerset Maugham
"A good garden may have some weeds."
Thomas Fuller
"No matter how chaotic it is,
wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere."
Sheryl Crow
"I played around with the flowers and the lighting,
so that was a good way to educate myself."
Robert Mapplethorpe
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet
and the winds long to play with your hair."
Kahlil Gibran
"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest,
which only yesterday was filled with trees."
Anna Freud
"The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man."
John Ruskin
"Earth is a flower and it's pollinating."
Neil Young
"Nature is not human hearted."
Lao Tzu
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
Blaise Pascal
"The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing."
Don Van Vliet
"Nothing leads to good that is not natural."
Friedrich Schiller
"Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind."
Jonathan Swift
"There is the sky, which is all men's together."
Euripides
"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
C. S. Lewis
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path."
Bodhidharma
"Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind."
Nastassja Kinski
"I'm afraid of sea creatures and things that could potentially bite me."
Joanna Noelle Levesque
"It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest."
Orison Swett Marden
"The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter."
Sally Ride
"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."
Muhammad Ali
"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death."
William Blake
"We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult."
Alan Bean
"Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land."
Susan George
"The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual."
R. Buckminster Fuller
"While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best."
Tom Allen
"The ocean is a mighty harmonist."
William Wordsworth
"Earth laughs in flowers."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."
Winston Churchill
"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery,
eats twice as much as nature requires."
Benjamin Franklin
"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more."
George Bernard Shaw
"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The love of heaven makes one heavenly."
William Shakespeare
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert Einstein
"Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get."
Mark Twain
"The good man is the friend of all living things."
Mohandas Gandhi
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde
"He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade."
Samuel Johnson
"All art is but imitation of nature."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
Voltaire
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
H. L. Mencken
"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave."
Thomas Jefferson
"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."
Henry David Thoreau
"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better."
Thomas Carlyle
"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."
Francis Bacon
"Every drop in the ocean counts."
Yoko Ono
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses."
Virgil
"Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond."
Ambrose Bierce
"I love not man the less, but Nature more."
Lord Byron
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
Aristotle
"It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top."
Henry Ward Beecher
"No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water."
Horace
"I am two with nature."
Woody Allen
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."
Robert Frost
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
Albert Camus
"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush."
Doug Larson
"Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually."
Jimi Hendrix
"All nature is but art unknown to thee."
Alexander Pope
"I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon-the view from nowhere."
Clifford Geertz
"You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it."
Denzel Washington
"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg."
Samuel Butler
"Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides."
Gene Tierney
"The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs."
Malcolm De Chazal
"Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art."
Philip James Bailey
"To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature."
Auguste Rodin
"All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God."
Thomas Browne
"Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises."
Emily Carr
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings."
John Muir
"It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top."
Arnold Bennett
"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."
Duke Ellington
"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn."
Hal Borland
"Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself."
Paul Muni
"Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man."
Stewart Udall
"The seas are the heart's blood of the earth."
Henry Beston
"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."
e. e. cummings
"It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water."
Stone Gossard
"When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
John Muir
"It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
Albert Camus
"My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing."
Aldous Huxley
"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."
William Hazlitt
"The least movement is of importance to all nature.
The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
Blaise Pascal
"Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds."
Carolus Linnaeus
"All gardening is landscape painting."
William Kent
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
Aristotle
"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."
Margaret Mead
"The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."
Edward Gibbon
"A tree is an incomprehensible mystery."
Jim Woodring
"God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world."
Paul Dirac
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."
Charlotte Whitton
"Art will never be able to exist without nature."
Pierre Bonnard
"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another."
~Juvenal~
"The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit."
~Saint Teresa of Avila~
"We must return to nature and nature's god."
~Luther Burbank~
and I'm done... 
"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death."
