Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
Lord Byron
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
John Updike
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter
There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.
William Cullen Bryant
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
Annie Leibovitz
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
Gustav Mahler
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Elizabeth Appell
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
H. P. Lovecraft
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Havelock Ellis
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
Sylvia Earle
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. Wilson
Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana