| Author |
Quotes |
| Henry Fuseli | Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object. |
| Henry Fuseli | Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object. |
| Henry van Dyke | Use what talent you possess-the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. |
| Ian McHarg | Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. |
| Ikkyu Sojun | Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. |
| Irving Burns | Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night. |
| James Anthony Froude | Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. |
| James Beattie | At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove. |
| James Carswell | Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. |
| James Dent | A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. |
| Jane Austen | To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. |
| Jean Giraudoux | The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. |
| Jean Rostand | Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language. |
| Johannes Kepler | Nature uses as little as possible of anything. |
| John Burroughs | Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. |
| John Dewey | Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. |
| John Fowles | In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. |
| John Keats | The poetry of the earth is never dead. |
| John Muir | The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness. |
| John Muir | When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. |
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