Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. Mao Zedong on nature
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! Wallace Stevens on nature
Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. Sara Teasdale on nature
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. Don DeLillo on nature
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. John Fowles on nature
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. Jean Giraudoux on nature
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. William Ellery Channing on nature
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. Annie Dillard on nature
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. Hamlin Garland on nature
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. Georges Simenon on nature
In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries no man can ignore all of them. Aldo Leopold on nature
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. Norman MacCaig on nature
Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer. Andy Goldsworthy on nature
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. Antonio Porchia on nature
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. Theodore Roethke on nature
Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. David Gerrold on nature
There is no forgiveness in nature. Ugo Betti on nature
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. Izaak Walton on nature
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. Robert Wilson Lynd on nature
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else. Hal Boyle on nature