Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked - Oscar Wilde

There is however, a true music of nature; the song of the birds, the whisper of leaves, the ripple of waters upon a sandy shore, the wail of wind or sea - Lubbock

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song - Lou Holz

Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure - Simon Barnes, Wild Notebook, The Times (31.12.2011)

Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it - Simon Barnes, Wild Notebook, The Times (31.12.2011)

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

The Earth laughs in flowers - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower - Albert Camus

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment - O'Keefe

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change - Buddha

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul - Prophet Muhammad

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers - Claude Monet

There are always flowers for those who want to see them - Henri Matisse

Take the time to smell a rose - unattributable

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul - Luther Burbank

Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true - Ray Evans

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

If you are thinking one year ahead, sow seed. If you are thinking ten years ahead, plant a tree. If you are thinking 100 years ahead, educate the people - Chinese proverb

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

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine - Anne Bronte