“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com
“I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“There are some places so beautiful that just being there feels like falling in love. The further this road stretches away from anything manmade, the prettier everything gets. Little cotton-ball clouds cling tight to the green hills when we arrive at our red cabin near dusk.”— Jim Goad, amazon.com
“I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.”— John Muir, amazon.com
“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.”— Christopher Paolini, amazon.com
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, this is what it is to be happy.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“Gardening is an opening of worlds-of worlds within worlds-beginning beginning with the world at one's feet. To become conscious of what one is treading on requires that one delve into the ground's organic underworld, so as to appreciate, in an engaged way, the soil's potential for fostering life.”— Robert Pogue Harrison, amazon.com
“Mushrooms fungi a manuscript in the forest. Time myelin. Here are cucumbers. Wet. Here are carrots. Stiff. Eat these tomatoes. Bloody. Lollygagging is a butterfly in the field. Radius magnifies. The creek filled with bubbling water. A bluejay. A garden. A hand. The doe runs by and glimpses the babbl…”— Pat Pace, thoughtcatalog.com
“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kind.”— David W. Orr, amazon.com
“The spectacular truth is — and this is something that your DNA has known all along— the very atoms of your body — the iron, calcium, phosphorus, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and on and on — were initially forged in long-dead stars. This is why, when you stand outside under a moonless, country sky, you…”— Gerald D. Waxman, amazon.com
“The sky is mauve lucite. The light lies intact and folded. You can anticipate the wind. A slight cloud drifts contrary to the planet.”— Lisa Roberston, amazon.com
“They say the planet is dying – but the planet is not dying, it just has a major infestation of us.”— Michael Lipsey, stoicmike.tumblr.com
“What if I told you that if you simply mix starlight, solitude, silence and softness, you may just learn everything you've ever needed to know about everything you hadn't known?”— Victoria Erickson, amazon.com
“The times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing's as raw as a sport as it gets.”— Kelly Slater, surf-quotes.tumblr.com
“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that’s the way to live.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com