A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. Anne Bronte
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Hans Christian Anderson
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. Georgia O'Keeffe
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
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only. Joseph Wood Krutch
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
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! Edward Abbey
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. Rupert Brooke
Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. Roger Tory Peterson
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. Hal Borland
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. Havelock Ellis
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
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. Wallace Stevens
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. Willa Cather