“From the quark to the supernova, the wonders do not cease. It is our attentiveness that is in short supply.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Toni Morrison once wrote that at some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough. So I turned off my camera, and it was. It was enough.”— John Green, youtube.com
“All I can say is that sometimes, the world stops me cold and I feel my smallness, and you'd think that would be sad, but it isn't. It only makes me grateful.”— John Green, youtube.com
“I've never bought the romantic notion that scientific understanding somehow robs the universe of its beauty.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Every human who's lived more than a few years on this planet has seen a beautiful sunset and paused to spend one of the last moments of day to be grateful for and overwhelmed by the light.”— John Green, youtube.com
“The thing I always search for, and the thing I like about nature, is its timelessness. It’ll always be the same. You can look at a photo and not be able to place it in time.”— Ryan McGinley, purple.fr
“I love nature because everything is out of my control. I rely on the elements for something unexpected to happen. I never know what kind of photo I'm going make until Mother Nature's unpredictability shows me the way.”— Ryan McGinley, dveightmag.com
“It was raining in Los Angeles the day of my appointment, which is basically a push notification from nature like, you still haven’t watched the third season of Transparent and you own all those couch blankets and don’t I make you feel so coooold and ~reflective~?”— Stephanie Georgopulos, medium.com
“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”— Mindy Kaling, amazon.com
“Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a…”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”— Mindy Kaling, amazon.com
“Everybody has a part of her body that she doesn't like, but I've stopped complaining about mine because I don't want to critique nature's handiwork.”— Alfre Woodard, oprah.com
“I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.”— Bjork, goodreads.com
“Whatever expression the sky takes, the features of the landscape are affected in unison, whether it be the serenity of the summer's blue, or the dark tumult of the storm. It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the cry…”— Thomas Cole, csun.edu
“It would seem unnecessary to those who can see and feel, for me to expatiate on the loveliness of verdant fields, the sublimity of lofty mountains, or the varied magnificence of the sky; but that the number of those who seek enjoyment in such sources is comparatively small.”— Thomas Cole, csun.edu
“Nature has spread for us a rich and delightful banquet. Shall we turn from it? We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out of the garden is our own ignorance and folly.”— Thomas Cole, csun.edu
“I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com