_NaTure*_

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. Lou Holtz


A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. John Muir


A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. Samuel Butler


A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. Carl Reiner


A mistake is simply another way of doing things. Katharine Graham


A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. Walt Whitman


A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. Hal Borland


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


Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. Russell Baker


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


All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. Thomas Browne


All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Toni Morrison


And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin


And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. William Shakespeare


Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. Langston Hughes


Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? Rose Kennedy


Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. Ikkyu Sojun


Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.


By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. Thomas Merton


Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. John Muir


Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. William Wordsworth


Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson


Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. Kin Hubbard


Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. Joseph Conrad


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


Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson


Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. Henry David Thoreau


Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. Gerard De Nerval


Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. John Muir


Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. Rainer Maria Rilke


Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. George Bernard Shaw


Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman


Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live. Marilyn Monroe


Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. William Shakespeare


Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. Henry Ward


Beecher Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. Antonio Porchia


Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson


For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. Pam Brown


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


For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! Edward Abbey


Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Orison Swett Marden


Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran


Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. Walt Whitman


God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. John Muir


Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. Pedro Calderon de la Barca


Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person. Sandra Day O'Connor


He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. Socrates


Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. Henry David Thoreau


Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. Robert Green Ingersoll


How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! John Muir


How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! Emily Dickinson


I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Wendell Berry


I am two with nature. Woody Allen


I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Walt Whitman


I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. Frank Lloyd Wright


I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. Georgia O'Keeffe


I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. Isaac


Bashevis Singer I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it. Debbie Harry


I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. John Burroughs


I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. Willa Cather


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


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


I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. Claude Monet


I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. Hamlin Garland


I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. Leo Buscaglia


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


I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. Alice Walker


I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. Joyce Kilmer


I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? Robert Redford


I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. Bertrand Russell


If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David Thoreau


If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. Aristotle


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


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


In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. Aldo Leopold


In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. Carl Sagan


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


In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus


In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. Charles Lindbergh


It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. Ansel Adams


It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. Frederick Douglass


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. Robert Louis Stevenson


It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. Cyril Connolly


It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. P. D. James


Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Hans Christian Anderson


Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. Hal Borland


Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. Mao Tse-Tung


Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. Carl Sandburg


Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. Langston Hughes


Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. Anton Chekhov


Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. Sara Teasdale


Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. Jimmy Carter


Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein


Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. Albert Schweitzer


Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. Saint Basil


Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. Steven Weinberg


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


Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson


Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. Ralph Waldo Emerson


Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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. John Burroughs


Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. Henry David Thoreau


Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. Francis Bacon


Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead


Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. Dag Hammarskjold


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


Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. Ambrose Bierce


One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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 touch of nature makes the whole world kin. William Shakespeare


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


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. John Lubbock


Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. Henry David Thoreau


Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much. Joan Collins


Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. Winston Churchill


Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. Roger Miller


Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. Jean Paul


Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" Robin Williams