| Author |
Quotes |
| Tom Mcmillan | For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death. |
| Vince Poscente | In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world. |
| Violette Leduc | I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips. |
| Virgil A Kraft | Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. |
| Voltaire | What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature. |
| Walt Whitman | A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. |
| Walt Whitman | I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. |
| William Cullen Bryant | Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. |
| William Cullen Bryant | To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. |
| William Cullen Bryant | The groves were God's first temples. |
| William Ellery Channing | The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. |
| William Manchester | The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | Nature abhors annihilation. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. |
| Francis Bacon | We cannot command nature except by obeying her. |
| George Bernard Shaw | Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. |
| Henry David Thoreau | Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. |
| Henry David Thoreau | You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft, a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things. |
| Henry David Thoreau | The bluebird carries the sky on his back. |
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