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" And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. "

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" Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. "

Theodore Roethke

" It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. "

Frederick Douglass

" 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. "

Galileo Galilei

" I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. "

" For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! "

" I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do. "

" All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature. "

" Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees. "

" As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. "

" And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. "

Elizabeth Appell

" The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life. "

" Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. "

" I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us. "

" Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. "

Langston Hughes

" One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high. "

Ezra Taft Benson

" All nature wears one universal grin. "

" Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. "

" The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. "

" I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. "

" Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. "

Rainer Maria Rilke

" The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony. "

" Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? "

Henry David Thoreau

" Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The sea has neither meaning nor pity. "

" Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. "

Charles Dickens

" Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder. "

" Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer. "

Andy Goldsworthy

" Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. "