“Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.”

“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.”

"Nature abhors a vacuum."

"Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence."

“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.”

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

"Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies."

"The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards."

"How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!"

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."

“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.”

"Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor."

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."

“Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.”

“Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.”

“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.”

“Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.”

“Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.”

"Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge."

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

"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."

“It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination”

"Rich with the spoils of nature."

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."