Francis of Assisi Quotes

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.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

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.

This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.

I love nature.

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm.

I love life. There's so much to learn and see all the time, and nothing nicer for me than to wake up, and the sky is blue.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.