You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.
I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.
Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
The writing in this book gives us a vocabulary and a way of seeing. But ultimately, with these words resonating in our consciousness, we must turn to the book of nature itself. It matters how we think about and touch this place during our brief and precious time in the world…it can come to reside in us as surely as we reside in it.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."
“Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.”
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
I am at two with nature.
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
You can't just let nature run wild.
I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.