Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
This is not done by jostling in the street.
[William Blake]
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself? [Henry David Thoreau]
The trees are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry,
Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors a still sky;
Upon the brimming water among the stones
Are nine and fifty swans.
[William Butler Yeats]
The Wild Swans at Coole
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.[Frank Lloyd Wright]
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]
Nature abhors a vacuum. [Aristotle]
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]
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. [James Russell Lowell]
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]
A flower is an educated weed. [Luther Burbank]
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.[Mahatma Gandhi]
On every stem, on every leaf ... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part. [Oliver Wendell Holmes]
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. [Rachel Carson]
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]
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. [Rachel Carson]
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.[Ralph Waldo Emerson]
When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.[Ralph Waldo Emerson]
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[Ralph Waldo Emerson]
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
An eternity in an hour.
[William Blake]
