In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
The things that most deserve our gratitude we just take for granted. Without air we cannot live for more than a minute or two. Everyday we are breathing in and breathing out, but do we ever feel grateful to the air? If we do not drink water, we cannot survive. Even our body is composed to a large extent of water.But do we give any value to water? Every morning when we open our eyes, we see the sun blessingfully offering us light and life-energy, which we badly need. But are we grateful to the sun?
Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.
I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.
The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
Nature's bank-dividends.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.
Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.
Being with nature opens us up to divine experience.
Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me.
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!
The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.
Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.
The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain!
