Nature and animals Quotes

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do

Earth laughs in flowers

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

The poetry of the earth is never dead

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts