Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
Doug Larson

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux

The groves were God's first temples.
William C. Bryant

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 Ellery Channing

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
Eric Berne

The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Henry Ellis

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Orison Swett Marden

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Tennessee Williams

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
e. e. cummings

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse