PAUL GAUGUIN
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.
DOROTHY B. HUGHES, THE EXPENDABLE MAN
He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite.
Albert Schweitzer
As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Aristotle
Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.
LORD BYRON
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
VINCENT WILLEM VAN GOGH
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
ANDY WARHOL
Land really is the best art.
THEODORE ROETHKE
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
MARION COTILLARD
I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.
BLAISE PASCAL
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
KATRINA MAYER
Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
LEWIS CARROLL, ALICE’S IN WONDERLAND
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?
LAURA INGALLS WILDER
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
ALICE WALKER
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.
LAO TZU
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
PYTHAGORAS
Leave the road, take the trails.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
MARIE CURIE
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
HARRISON FORD
Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
JOHN MUIR
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried 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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
Jonatan Mårtensson
Feelings are much like waves: we can’t stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
ANATOLE FRANCE
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
HENRY MILLER
The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
GERARD DE NERVAL
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
ARISTOTLE
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
JOHN BURROUGHS
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
W.B. Yeats
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
Bram Stoker, Dracula
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
HENRI MATISSE
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
E. E. Cummings
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
VANGELIS
Until man learns to respect and speak to the animal world, he can never know his true role on earth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The earth has music for those who listen.
REMBRANDT
Choose only one master — nature.
Australian Aboriginal Proverb
We are all visitors to this time. This place we are just passing through. Our purpose here is to Observe. To Learn. To Grow. To Love. And then we return home.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
VOLTAIRE
Men argue. Nature acts.
JANE AUSTEN
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB
We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Malcolm de Chazal
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
Kamand Kojouri
Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge.
Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.
Rainer Maria Rilke
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
What are men to rocks and mountains?
Edgar Allan Poe
So lovely was the loneliness of a wild lake.
RAINER MARIA RILKE
If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.
NATALIE ANGIER
The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.
BUDDHA
If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
Henry David Thoreau, Walking
Wildness is the preservation of the World.
Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
The paradox of volcanoes was that they were symbols of destruction but also life. Once the lava slows and cools, it solidifies and then breaks down over time to become soil - rich, fertile soil. She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to that wasteland. She could plant a forest inside herself.
JOHN MUIR
Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...
Langston Hughes
The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water.
GEORGE SANTANAYA
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
EMILY DICKINSON, THE COMPLETE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON
Nature is a haunted house - but Art - is a house that tries to be haunted.
Cheyenne PROVERB
If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.
SYLVIA PLATH
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’
Lewis Carroll
No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
WALT WHITMAN
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
MATT DAMON
If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems.
D. H. LAWRENCE
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI, ERAGON
The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.
JOHN KEATS
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The earth laughs in flowers.
Werner Herzog
What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Van Morrison, Into the Mystic
Hark, now hear the sailors cry,
Smell the sea, and feel the sky,
Let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.
ELIZABETH KÜBLER-ROSS
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN: OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS
We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
ROBERT WYLAND
The ocean stirs the heart, inspired the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.
NAVAJO PROVERB
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
CARL SAGAN
Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.
Emily Brontë
And from the midst of cheerless gloom
I passed to bright unclouded day.
Alice Walker
Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
Jorge Luis Borges
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Mahatma Gandhi
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
LEIGH HUNT
Colors are the smiles of nature.
JOHN LUBBOCK
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
Jim Morrison
The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun…
Leonardo Da Vinci
Water is the driving force of all nature.
LORD BYRON
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, / There is a rapture on the lonely shore, / There is society, where none intrudes, /By the deep sea, and music in its roar: / I love not man the less, but Nature more.
LAO TZU
Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.
Wangari Maathai
A tree has roots in the soil / yet reaches to the sky. / It tells us that in order to aspire / we need to be grounded / and that no matter how high we go / it is from our roots / that we draw / sustenance.
Leonardo Di Caprio
We only get one planet. Humankind must become accountable on a massive scale for the wanton destruction of our collective home. Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.
JOHN MUIR
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
IMMANUEL KANT
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
CLAUDE MONET
The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.
KHALIL GIBRAN
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
MARC BENIOFF
The reality is that we’re all deeply connected. Not only to each other, but to the ocean and the planet as well.
Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.