Kin Hubbard

"Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish into the vast sea of God."

Richard Selzer

"Earth 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."

John Lubbock

"Earth laughs in flowers."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away."

Stephanie Mills

"Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it."

Henry David Thoreau

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature."

Gerard De Nerval

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."

John Muir

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."

Rainer Maria Rilke

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

George Bernard Shaw

"Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees."

David Letterman

"Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live."

Marilyn Monroe

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."

William Shakespeare

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."

Henry Ward Beecher

"Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow."

Antonio Porchia

"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours."

Pam Brown

"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."

Martin Luther

"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"

Edward Abbey

"For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather, every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously."

George Gissing

"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."

Orison Swett Marden

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

Kahlil Gibran

"Fragments came floating into his mind like bits of wood drifting down a stream, and he fished them out and fitted them together."

Elizabeth Gray Vining

"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed."

Walt Whitman

"God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools."

John Muir