“All good things are wild and free.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
— Lao Tzu
“Nature is pleased with simplicity.”
— Isaac Newton
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
— John Muir
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
— George Santayana
“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.”
— Hubert Reeves
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
— Aristotle
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”
— William Hazlitt
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”
— Hal Borland
“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
“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
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”
— John Burroughs
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.”
— Edward Abbey
“Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
— John Keats
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
— Rachel Carson
“Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.”
— Marilyn French
“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.”
“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”
— William Wordsworth
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
“I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.”
— Charles A. Lindbergh
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
— Robert Frost
“The more civilized man becomes, the more he needs and craves a great background of forest wildness, to which he may return like a contrite prodigal from the husks of an artificial life.”
— Ellen Burns Sherman
“Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.”
— W. Earl Hall
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