If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Rainer Maria Rilke
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Autumn wins you best by this, its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. Robert Browning
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
John Muir
The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
Jack London
Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.
Jack Kerouac
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The stars awaken a certain reverence because though always present they are inaccessible.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
John Burroughs
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
Bernard Williams
I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.
Stephenie Meyer
Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world.
John Muir
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
Henry Ward Beecher
And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.
John Muir
Rainbows apologize for angry skies.
Sylvia Voirol
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it’s the plains. I guess it’s the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.
Georgia O’Keeffe
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore
Even for a tree of 10000 feet, it’s leaves return to the root when they fall.
Chinese proverb
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
Isaac Newton
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.
Alice Walker
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.
Lao Tzu
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
Cormac McCarthy
I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.
Audrey Hepburn
Going to the mountains is going home.
John Muir
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Rachel Carson
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
Rachel Carson
By discovering nature, you discover yourself.
Maxime Lagacé
I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively, instead of skeptically and dictatorially.
E.B. White
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey
In every walk in with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
David Attenborough
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species – man – acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.
Rachel Carson
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
Jacques Yves Cousteau