- “I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.” – Emma Goldman
- “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” – Albert Einstein
- “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy. – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “Not just beautiful, though—the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.” – Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
- “Is the spring coming?’ he said. ‘What is it like?’ …
‘It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth.'” -Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
- “If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.” – Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
- “The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl and touch one another, but they are so distant, so very far apart, that they cannot feel the warmth of each other, even though they are made of burning.” – Beth Revis, Across the Universe
- “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.'” -Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
- “This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.” -John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
- “Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness.” -Mary Oliver, “Snowy Night”
- “Quiet stars and the still of expectation. The eucalyptus branches heavy with evening dew, their feet shuffling woodchips, braiding eights in the silver grass, and edging hillocks from the first mulch of fall.” -Will Chancellor, A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall
- “The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t.” -Christopher Paolini, Eragon
- “But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called—called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.” -Jack London, The Call of the Wild
- “To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment. “ -Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
- “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. … There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” – Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
- “These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.” ―Anton Chekhov, “A Day in the Country”
- “Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.” -John Muir, Our National Parks
- “I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.” -Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
- “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.” –Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” –John Muir
- “I wonder if the snowloves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
- “The mountains are calling and I must go.” – John Muir
- “I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.” ― George Carlin
- “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” ― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard’s Egg
- “The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?” ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.” ― Brian Jacques, Taggerung
- “I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.” ― William Shakespeare
- “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- “…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”― Vincent van Gogh
- “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
- “I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”― Aldo Leopold
- “The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t.”― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
- “The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.”- Robinson Jeffers
- “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
- “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”
― John Muir, The Mountains of California
- “You will manage to keep a woman in love with you, only for as long as you can keep her in love with the person she becomes when she is with you.” ― JoyBell C.
- “If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
- “Not just beautiful, though–the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.”― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
- “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity”
―John Muir, Our National Parks
- “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”― Ingrid Bergman
- “The poetry of the earth is never dead.” ―John Keats
- “Nature is a haunted house–but Art–is a house that tries to be haunted.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
- “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
―Winston S. Churchill
- “The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”― John Muir
- “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn”―Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”― William Blake
- “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” ―Gary Snyder
- “When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.” ―John Lennon
- “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
- “Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.”― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
- “I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”― B. White, Letters of E. B. White
- “Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something that is when we start walking all over others to get it.”― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality