I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.  ~Walt Whitman

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 Fowles

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.  ~Henry David ThoreauCCQ

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. ~Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, 1620cd

You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River?  Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them.  ~Russell Chatham, Silent Seasons, 1978p185-93, CDAS

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees.  The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.  It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day.  It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.  Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me – I am happy.  ~Hamlin Garland, McClure’s, February 1899

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.  Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.  The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.  ~John Muir

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.  ~John Burroughs

…but when
The Spirit speaks,?or beauty from the sky
Descends into my being,?when I hear
The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll,
Or thunder sound,?the champion of the storm!?
Then I feel envy for immortal words,
The rush of living thought; oh! then I long
To dash my feelings into deathless verse,
That may administer to unborn time,
And tell some lofty soul how I have lived
A worshipper of Nature and of Thee!
~Robert Montgomery, “Death,” A Universal Prayer; Death; A Vision of Heaven; and A Vision of Hell; &c. &c., 1829TPVgb, QE2

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.  ~Thomas Jefferson, letter to Martha Jefferson Randall, 1790, Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Book (1994) edited by E.M. BettsQG

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.  ~Alan C. KayDCQ

The world is a sunny success. ~Terri Guillemets

I know the thrill of the grasses when the rain pours over them.
I know the trembling of the leaves when the winds sweep through them.
I know what the white clover felt as it held a drop of dew pressed close in its beauteousness.
I know the quivering of the fragrant petals at the touch of the pollen-legged bees.
I know what the stream said to the dipping willows, and what the moon said to the sweet lavender.
I know what the stars said when they came stealthily down and crept fondly into the tops of the trees.
~Muriel Strode, "Creation Songs"

With innovation and technology, seems we have forgotten to cherish the true beauty the world has to offer.  ~A.C. Van Cherub

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.  ~e.e. cummings

Fire is the best of servants; but what a master!  ~Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book II, chapter 9BMC

After all, I don’t see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.  ~Anne Morrow LindberghCUL

A wee child toddling in a wonder world…. I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers.  If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.  ~Zitkala-Sa

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.  ~John Heywood, 1565

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me.  ~William HazlittCCQ

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

There is not a creature unacquainted with gratification, in some shape or another. All derive it from the circumstances amid which they exist, which fact quietly suggests to us that the purest and most lasting pleasures are to be found at our very feet,? that they are not necessarily the fruit of toil and outlay, but that they flow to us out of the very nature of things, if we will but be content with what is simple and genuine…. The foot that is familiar with the grass belongs usually to a man of lighter heart than he whose soles seldom wander from the pavement; and the best elixir vit? is a run, as often as we can contrive it, amid the sweets of new and lovely scenery, where nature sits, fresh from the hand of the Creator, almost chiding us for our delay. ~Leo Hartley Grindon, “Insects,” The Little Things of Nature: Considered Especially in Relation to the Divine Benevolence, 1865TPVgb, 2nd ed, 1866; Leopold Hartley Grindon (British educator & botanist, 1818-1904); Qe2

Nature rejuvenates so quickly, so completely.  Though we often view ourselves otherwise, we are nature.  ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.comnature rejuvenates so quickly, so completely. tho we often view Rselves otherwise, WE r nature. i am the budding cottonwood. spring cometh. 23rd may 2009 twitter.com/JebDickerson/status/1894462447

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon.  ~Alice MeynellQG

Adults are always so busy with the dull and dusty affairs of life which have nothing to do with grass, trees, and running streams.  ~The Little Grey Men by BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford), 1942

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.  ~Helen Keller

Innovative capitalists have tried to rewrite nature, but to no avail. ~Terri Guillemets

All I want is to stand in a field
and to smell green,
to taste air,
to feel the earth want me,
Without all this concrete
hating me.
~Phillip Pulfrey, from Love, Abstraction and other Speculations, www.originals.netNov08mail

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

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.  Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.  ~Wendell Berry

As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.  ~Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.  ~Kahlil Gibran

The color of the mountains is Buddha’s body; the sound of running water is his great speech.  ~Dogen

Joy all creatures drink
At nature’s bosoms…
~Friedrich von Schiller, "Ode to Joy," 1785, translated from German

I am not a lover of lawns.  Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn.  ~W.H. Hudson, The Book of a Naturalist, 1919QG

Any man that walks the mead
In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find
A meaning suited to his mind.
~Alfred TennysonQSO

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 Channing

Nature is my medicine.  ~Sara Moss-Wolfe

You will find something more in woods than in books.  Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.  ~St. Bernard

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.  ~John Berger, The Sense of Sight, 1980QG

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day.  No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.  ~Aldo Leopold

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church,
I keep it staying at Home –
With a bobolink for a Chorister,
And an Orchard, for a Dome.
~Emily Dickinson, No. 324, St. 1, 1862

Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed… if we only knew it.  What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.  ~James Russell Lowell

A sensitive plant in a garden grew,
And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light,
and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Sensitive Plant," 1820

I’ve always regarded nature as the clothing of God.  ~Alan HovhanessBTSG

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped.  Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds!  ~Dave BeardMay 10th, 2009 twitter.com/Raqhun/status/1757475858

I walked barefoot – the only way to walk on a muddy road.  ~Laurie Gough, "Light on a Moonless Night"CCQ

You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.  ~Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.  ~Juvenal, Satires

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.  ~Eleonora DuseCCQ

Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.  ~Standing Bear

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms – will it return to my body when they scatter?  ~Kotomichi

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

Nature never goes out of style.  ~Author Unknown

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.  ~Michael Pollan, Second Nature, 1991QG

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.  ~William Shakespeare

Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man.  ~George Wherry, Alpine Notes and the Climbing Foot, 1896CDC

Adopt the pace of nature:  her secret is patience.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 BurroughsQSCI

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite. ~Bertrand Russell

If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand. ~Buddha

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.  ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains:  The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.  ~John Burroughs