You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

—Hal Borland

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

—Emily Dickinson

As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.

—Stephen Graham

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

—William Shakespeare

You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness — perhaps ignorance, credulity — helps your enjoyment of these things...

—Walt Whitman

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

—Michel de Montaigne

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

—e.e. cummings

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

—John Fowles

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

—Thomas Jefferson

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding.

—Jacob Brownowski

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

—Wendell Berry

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

—Isaac Bashevis Singer