In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Charles Lindbergh

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Ansel Adams

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.
Jimmy Carter

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

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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson