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
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
Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person. Sandra Day O'Connor
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. Wendell Berry
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
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
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. Claude Monet
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
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. Cyril Connolly
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
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
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. Mao Zedong
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! Wallace Stevens
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
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
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
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. Jean Giraudoux
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
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. Annie Dillard