A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz
A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.
David Douglas
A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
Anne Bronte
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner
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
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 the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.
Thomas Moore
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
As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree,’ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
가을은 모든 잎이 꽃이 되는(every leaf turns into a flower) 제2의 봄(a second spring)이다.
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
Gilbert White
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 have wings; they’re free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
Roger Tory Peterson
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.
Rupert Brooke
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
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke
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 flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
꽃은 자연 속에 피어나는 영혼(a soul blossoming in nature)이다.
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
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.
Khalil Gibran
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Walt Whitman
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.
William Bartram
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
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
희망은 꽃없이도 꿀을 만들어내는 유이한 벌이다(the only bee that makes honey without flowers)
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.
나는 신을 믿는다(I believe in God). 다만 ‘자연’이라고 쓸 뿐이다(Only I spell it Nature).
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
Gustave Flaubert
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Georgia O’Keeffe
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
Edward Steichen
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’m very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
Norman MacCaig
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 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 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 invent 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 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.
음악과 예술처럼(like music and art) 자연에 대한 사랑(love of nature)은 정치적 사회적 경계를 초월하는 공통언어(a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries)이다.
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
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she’s going to come around and whack you. You’ve got to be prepared.
Geraldo Rivera
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
William Bartram
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.
자연은 언제나 영혼의 색을 입는다(always wear the colors of the spirit).
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy – your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
Annie Leibovitz
Nature is wont to hide herself.
Heraclitus
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 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
Nothing is so beautiful as spring – when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There’s something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
Andy Goldsworthy
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
People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature’s memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.
Henry Cantwell Wallace
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Wallace Stevens
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
Wallace Stevens
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
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
Doug Larson
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
Swans sing before they die – ’twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Marcus Aurelius
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux
The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations – each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.
Ruth Bernhard
The groves were God’s first temples.
William C. Bryant
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
Georges Simenon
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
William Ellery Channing
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
Eric Berne
The mountains are calling and I must go.
John Muir
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
Joseph Wood Krutch
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Henry Ellis
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Moliere
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Orison Swett Marden
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Tennessee Williams
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
e. e. cummings
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Annie Dillard
There is no forgiveness in nature.
Ugo Betti
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Robert Wilson Lynd
There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
Don DeLillo
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Izaak Walton
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
Emily Dickinson
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helen Keller
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen
Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore
Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
David Gerrold
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Walter Scott
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
William Hazlitt
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt – it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.
Hal Boyle
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Victor Hugo
When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van Gogh
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
James Whitcomb Riley
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me – I am happy.
Hamlin Garland
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
Winter is nature’s way of saying, "Up yours."
Robert Byrne
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Ansel Adams
You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Hal Borland
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