Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch SpinozaExcept during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard ShawThere are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.
Terry PratchettI can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
Helen KellerHorses make a landscape look beautiful.
Alice WalkerA few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John MuirAutumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert CamusAs the poet said, ‚Only God can make a tree,‘ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody AllenWhen you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.
Thich Nhat HanhThe greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTake a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
John MuirI was definitely very much a country boy.
Edmund HillaryNature has always had more force than education.
VoltaireWe are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI am two with nature.
Woody AllenSee that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
Richard P. FeynmanIf you’re in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
Brian EnoThen not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
PlatoWhen you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.
AuroraO wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
ChanakyaI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David ThoreauPoetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
David HareAnd this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William ShakespeareNature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWater is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da VinciNature is wont to hide herself.
HeraclitusNature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.
Paulo CoelhoIt’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad AliExtinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Carl SaganThe human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.
Herbert HooverEven though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.
Charles BukowskiNo one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
Bob DylanNature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Leonardo da VinciHe that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
Samuel JohnsonWhen I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van GoghIsn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Douglas AdamsA wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily DickinsonNature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco ChanelSisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!
Emily DickinsonStudy hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.
Che GuevaraOnly when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
Khalil GibranYou are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.
Thich Nhat HanhLong stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Thomas CarlyleI don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.
Eckhart TolleLoss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.
Marcus AureliusIt stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert EinsteinWe see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHeaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David ThoreauEven if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin LutherA man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Henry David ThoreauAll art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMan takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
Lao TzuThaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
Henry David ThoreauWhen I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.
Jane GoodallOh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.
Charles SpurgeonIt is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.
John MuirNature never breaks her own laws.
Leonardo da VinciNever lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
Hermann Hesse