When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

More businesses should be following Apple’s stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Many readers fail to realize this, but ‚The Color Purple‘ is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one’s original God: the earth and nature.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Gardening is not a rational act.

I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we’re not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

I’m crepuscular.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

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

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

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

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

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.

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed – chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

Nature abhors annihilation.