Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. Rupert Brooke on nature
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 on nature
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 on nature
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 on nature
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 on nature
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 on nature
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. Wallace Stevens on nature
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. Willa Cather on nature
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. Saint Basil on nature
Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared. Geraldo Rivera on nature
Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person. Sandra Day O'Connor on nature
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. Wendell Berry on nature
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. Joseph Conrad on nature
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. Diane Ackerman on nature
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. Claude Monet on nature
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Wendell Berry on nature
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. Cyril Connolly on nature
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. Iris Murdoch on nature
Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. Gerard Manley Hopkins on nature