“The desolate, deserted trees, The faded earth, the heavy sky, The beauties she so truly sees, She thinks I have no eye for these, And vexes me for reason why.”— Robert Frost, amazon.com
“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.”— Gregory Bateson, 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
“In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“The living inhabitation of the world — the grazing and nesting in it, — the spiritual power of the air, the rocks, the waters, to be in the midst of it, and rejoice and wonder at it, and help it if I could, — happier if it needed no help of mine, — this was the essential love of Nature in me, this t…”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.”— John Milton, en.wikiquote.org
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“Even in the darkest night, if you strike a match, the shadows will flee. This is a law of nature; the darkness yields to the light, no matter how small the flame.”— Jared White, facebook.com
“The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”— E. B. White, amazon.com
“The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“My greatest pleasure was the enjoyment of a serene sky amidst these verdant woods: yet I loved all the changes of Nature; and rain, and storm, and the beautiful clouds of heaven brought their delights with them.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I’m trying to do that.”— Roscoe Mitchell, furious.com
“It is disturbing to see that the current debate over evolution has become us-versus-them. To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn’t make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has been seriously considered by Stephen Hawk…”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”— Aldoux Huxley, amazon.com
“Nobody ever told him he was personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society he grew up in.”— Eliezer Yudkowsky, hpmor.com
“I don’t understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.”— Ed Begley Junior, goodreads.com