QUOTES

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. (Henry David Thoreau)

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.  (Helen Keller)

The Earth has music for those who listen.  (William Shakespeare)

We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.  (Albert Einstein)

Forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.  (Khalil Gibran)

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.  (Aristotle)

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.  (John Muir)

Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.  (Walt Whitman)

Take a quiet walk with mother nature. It will nurture your mind, body, and soul.  (A.D. Williams)

These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.  (Anton Chekhov)

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.  (Henry David Thoreau)

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people.  I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.”  (Sylvia Plath)

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.  (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

To walk into nature is to witness a thousand miracles.  (Mary Davis)

Nature is the art of God.  (Dante Alghieri)

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)

Whoever loves and understandss a garden will find contentment within.  (Chinese proverb)

In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.  (John Muir)