We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund BurkeAny 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.
John MuirI was definitely very much a country boy.
Edmund HillaryThe difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.
Brene BrownWhen a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard ShawIt was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
Hunter S. ThompsonWhat 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 HesseAll the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit – the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.
John MuirIf one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.
AristotleLet me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
James MadisonHorses make a landscape look beautiful.
Alice WalkerFor in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Martin LutherThe Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.
Stephen HawkingI believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.
George W. BushNature never breaks her own laws.
Leonardo da VinciThe dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.
John MuirNecessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
Leonardo da VinciI 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.
Hunter S. ThompsonWere I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘
Edgar Allan PoeHow glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John MuirThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John MuirNo man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel JohnsonA chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
William JamesFrom my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.
Jane GoodallNature is not human hearted.
Lao TzuIn nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.
Alice WalkerUnrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.
Pope FrancisThere are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.
Christopher ColumbusI love the sea.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamTime destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Marcus Tullius CiceroOur task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert EinsteinNature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
Emily DickinsonNever lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHow inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
Arthur C. ClarkeI was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
Albert CamusThe stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Joseph AddisonIt is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Jimmy CarterA wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily DickinsonHeaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David ThoreauAnger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.
Francis BaconStudies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Francis BaconYou forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
Julius CaesarThe gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
John MuirOur passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Alexander PopeI just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it’s a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.
Alice WalkerGod Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis BaconI am two with nature.
Woody AllenI think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.
Alice WalkerNature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean-Jacques RousseauNature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert EinsteinThe Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Henry David ThoreauWe see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
John MuirKeep 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.
John MuirNo one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
Bob DylanIf we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
George Eliot