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" They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. "

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" In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. "

" Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. "

" 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. "

" It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble. "

" In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. "

" Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems. "

Douglas Tompkins

" It is the nature of babies to be in bliss. "

" In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border. "

" You do what you like because you just follow your curiosity, and you are happy when you find new things about nature, about how things work around us and inside us. "

" There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. "

" Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. "

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. "

" The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. "

Vladimir Nabokov

" Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus. "

" One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" 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

" Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. "

" It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. "

" Water is the driving force of all nature. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. "

" This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness. "

Richard Jefferies

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Sound is the vocabulary of nature. "

Pierre Schaeffer

" Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. "

Roger Tory Peterson

" Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication. "

" It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. "

" We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. "

Abdolkarim Soroush

" The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children. "

Henry Morton Stanley

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

" We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. "