The love of flowers is really the best teacher of how to grow and understand them.
My beloved is the mountains, the solitary wooded valleys, strange islands, silent music.
Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
NTo know the land for what it is, to find its heartbeat, to expose its soul, you have to go underground where it lives and breathes.
There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
There are unknown forces within nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she leads them to us; she shows us those forms which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
There is something marvelous in all natural things.
Everything we make pollutes. The most responsible thing we can do is to make each product as well as we know how so it lasts as long as possible.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf's a flower.
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
All nature wears one universal grin.
See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
We need the tonic of wildness and nature.
Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
In the woods is perpetual youth.
Wildness can be a way of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.
Nature is the art of God.
We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.
ANature never did betray the heart that loved her.
Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Nature is much cleverer than I am.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.
The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.
In every out thrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is a story of the earth.
The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; she never produces classes.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in tune once more.
I believe in rain, in odd miracles, in the intelligence that allows terns and swallows to find their way across Earth.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.
A flower touches everyone's heart.
The earth laughs in flowers.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature.
Eventually, a gardener becomes a philosophers.
Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.
Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness.
Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
Learn about pines from the pine, and about bamboo from the bamboo.
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
Give me a spark of Nature's fire. That's all the learning I desire.