A forest bird never wants a cage.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Man is by nature a political animal.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.

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

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

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

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

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

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

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

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

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.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

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.