The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.
Copy Quote View & ShareHaving contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.
Copy Quote View & ShareHaving plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, it's important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing.
Copy Quote View & ShareNature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
Copy Quote View & ShareOccurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Copy Quote View & ShareEarth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
Copy Quote View & ShareHe that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.
Copy Quote View & ShareVegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Copy Quote View & ShareNothing 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareSpring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
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