If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.
We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn
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.
Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Our love went from fly to flower to butterfly, and it was meant to beautifully flutter, not sit still on a shelf like a trophy to be collected.
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.