Kevin Starr

"A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease."

John Muir

"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg."

Samuel Butler

"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water."

Carl Reiner

"A mistake is simply another way of doing things."

Katharine Graham

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

Walt Whitman

"A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart."

Hal Borland

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

H. G. Wells

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."

Russell Baker

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."

Abraham Lincoln

"All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God."

Thomas Browne

"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was."

Toni Morrison

"And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?"

Carl Sandburg

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

Anais Nin

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

William Shakespeare

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

Albert Camus

"Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying."

Langston Hughes

"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?"

Rose Kennedy

"Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms."

Ikkyu Sojun

"Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass."

Rupert Brooke

"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."

Thomas Merton

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings."

John Muir

"Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher."

William Wordsworth

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson