"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."
Henri Matisse
"The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson."
Orison Swett Marden
"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
John Muir
"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."
Henry David Thoreau
"Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
Robin Williams
"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."
Winston Churchill
"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
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
William Shakespeare
"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
Dale Carnegie
"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills"
Ambrose Bierce
"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
"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."
Dag Hammerskjold
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
Francis Bacon
"My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful."
Hamlin Garland
"Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries."
Jimmy Carter
"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder."
Carl Sandburg
"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."
Hal Borland
"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
Hans Christian Anderson
"In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia."
Charles Lindbergh
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
John Ruskin
"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush."
Doug Larson
"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
"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."
William Hazlitt
"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug."
Helen Keller
"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."
Wendell Berry
"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."
George Santayana
"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."
Anthony J. D'Angelo
"Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
Albert Einstein
"The Amen! of Nature is always a flower"
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
John Muir
"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."
John Muir
"I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do."
John Muir
"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
Theodore Roosevelt
"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
Lou Holtz
"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."
H.G. Wells
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."
Abraham Lincoln
"See the world. It's more fantastic than and dream made or paid for in factories."
Ray Bradbury
"Bless the trees and wild renewing places!"
Pauline Conn
"Outdoors is where the great mystery lies, so going into nature should be a searching and humbling experience, like going to church."
Skip Whitcomb
"It's up to us to save the world for tomorrow: its up to you and me."
Jane Goodall
"I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."u."
Frank Lloyd Wright
