Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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 Burroughs

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
Diane Ackerman

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Henry David Thoreau

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
Joan Collins

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

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
Roger Miller

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Jean Paul

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
Robin Williams