To one who has been long in city pent,
'Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven, - to breathe a prayer
Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
[John Keats]
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]
Any man that walks the mead
In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find
A meaning suited to his mind.
[Alfred Lord Tennyson]
Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God.
[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.[Thomas Jefferson]
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way.[Aristotle]
Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway." [Maya Angelou]
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. [Har Borland]
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.[Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]
Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak. [Epictetus]
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.[Frank Lloyd Wright]
Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]
But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth;
The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth:
Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam,
Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.
[Lord Byron]
Study nature, not books. [Jean Louis Agassiz]
I am at two with nature. [Woody Allen]
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who posses it. [Henry Ward Beecher]
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. [Max Beerbohm]
It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.[Confucius]
Nature can do more than physicians. [Oliver Cromwell]
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. [August Rodin]
Fair Daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain'd his noon.
Stay, stay,
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the even-song;
And, having pray'd together, we
Will go with you along.
[Robert Herrick]
You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she will always hurry back.[Horace]
Trees and fields tell me nothing; men are my teachers. [Plato]
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.[Walt Whitman]
Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.[William Wordsworth]
