1. A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. ~Michael Pollan, Second Nature, 1991
2. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. Art gallery? Who needs it? Look up at the swirling silver-lined clouds in the magnificent blue sky or at the silently blazing stars at midnight. How could indoor art be any more masterfully created than God's museum of nature? ~Grey Livingston
4. As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens. ~Stephen Graham
5. Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. ~Rupert Brooke .
6. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
7. Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you'll find it there. ~Robb Sagendorph
8. Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. ~George Santayana
9. God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. ~Martin Luther
10. How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ~John Muir
12. I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us. ~Pearl S. Buck
13. I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. ~John Burroughs
14. I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. ~George Washington Carver
15. I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. ~e.e. cummings
16. If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way. ~Aristotle
17. If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ~Eleonora Duse
18. 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
19. In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. ~Charles A. Lindbergh
20. It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. ~Rachel Carson
21. I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. ~Alan Hovhaness
22. Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. ~Rupert Brooke
23. Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. ~John Muir
24. Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. ~Michel de Montaigne
25. Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. ~Anne Wilson Schaef
26. Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~Albert Einstein
27. Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. ~Standing Bear
28. My profession is always to be alert, to find God in nature, to know God's lurking places, to attend to all the oratorios and the operas in nature. ~Henry David Thoreau
29. Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. ~Henry David Thoreau
30. Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu
31. Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. ~Antoinette Brown Blackwell
32. Nature is the art of God. ~Thomas Browne
33. Nature will not be admired by proxy. ~Winston Churchill
34. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
35. Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. ~George Washington Carver
36. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ~William Shakespeare
37. Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. ~Alan C. Kay
39. Study natures, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. ~Frank Lloyd Wright
40. That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. ~John Berger, The Sense of Sight, 1980
41. The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. ~Anne Frank
42. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. ~Blaise Pascal
44. The poetry of the earth is never dead. ~John Keats
45. The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration. ~Claude Monet
46. The sun, with all those plants revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. ~Galileo
47. The winds will blow their own freshness into you... while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
48. There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. ~Linda Hogan
49. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. ~Rachel Carson
50. Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson
51. To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. ~John Burroughs
52. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. ~Helen Keller
53. To see a world in a grain of sand,
And heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour. ~William Blake
54. We cannot command nature except by obeying her. ~Francis Bacon
55. What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
56. When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being. ~Ernest Becker
57. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. ~Desiderata