“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
— Edward Abbey

“The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.”
— Natalie Angier

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
— Aristotle

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
— Margaret Atwood

“Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.”
— Karle Wilson Baker

“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
— Matsuo Basho

“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
— William Blake

“It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.”
— Pearl S. Buck

“... and in her starry shade
Of dim and solitary loveliness,
I learn’d the language of another world.”
— Lord Byron

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
— Albert Camus

“In the depth of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
— Rachel Carson

“I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell ... as we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which are God’s true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow.”
— George Washington Carver

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
— Willa Cather

“One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
— G.K. Chesterton

“Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms the judgement of nature.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie
True Poems flee”
— Emily Dickinson

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
— Annie Dillard

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
— Albert Einstein

“Earth laughs in flowers.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
— Galileo Galilei

“There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me, it’d be really, really tragic because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how it has emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why.”
— Jane Goodall

“I am rich today with autumn’s gold.”
— Gladys Harp

“Nothing endures but change.”
— Heraclitus

“Let the rain kiss you.”
— Langston Hughes

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
— Victor Hugo

“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”
— Juvenal

“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.”
— Helen Keller

“Our challenge isn’t so much to teach children about the natural world, but to find ways to nurture and sustain the instinctive connections they already carry.”
— Terry Krautwurst

“To see things in the seed, that is genius.”
— Lao Tzu

“The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.”
— D. H. Lawrence

“The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.”
— Elizabeth Lawrence

“High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its nearness ... A new day has begun on the crane marsh. A sense of time lies thick and heavy on such a place ... Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.”
— Aldo Leopold

“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”
— Maori proverb


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