What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. Richard Bach on nature
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. George Bernard Shaw on nature
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. Thomas Merton on nature
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. Carl Reiner on nature
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. Martin Luther on nature
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. John Burroughs on nature
The mountains are calling and I must go. John Muir on nature
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagore on nature
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. George Washington Carver on nature
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. Langston Hughes on nature
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. Edward Abbey on nature
It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. Frederick Douglass on nature
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. John Lubbock on nature
Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? Rose Kennedy on nature
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. Vincent Van Gogh on nature
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. George Eliot on nature
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on nature
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on nature