Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one’s eyes.

—George Sand

Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.

—John Muir

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

—Jimmy Carter

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity ... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

—William Blake

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

—John Burroughs

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

—Linda Hogan

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

—Rabindranath Tagore

Birth, life, and death — each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

—Toni Morrison

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.

—Rachel Carson

Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

—Goethe

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

 —William Shakespeare

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

 —Albert Einstein