The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

All art is but imitation of nature.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

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.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

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.

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

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.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

Nature is the art of God.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

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.

Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.

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.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

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.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

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.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

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.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.