"They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life." - Jane AustenTweet
"Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul." - OvidTweet
"People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely." - Henry Cantwell WallaceTweet
"We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state." - Ralph Waldo EmersonTweet
"Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity." - William WordsworthTweet
"An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome." - John RuskinTweet
"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 HopkinsTweet
"There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author." - Marquis de SadeTweet
"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was." - Toni MorrisonTweet
"Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws." - Calvin CoolidgeTweet