James Russell Lowell

"Grass grows by inches but it's killed by feet."

George Thoma

"Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person."

Sandra Day O'Connor

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

Socrates

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."

Henry David Thoreau

"Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth."

Diane Ackerman

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."

Robert Green Ingersoll

"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!"

John Muir

"How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?"

Charles Lindbergh

"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"

Emily Dickinson

"Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous."

Leonardo da Vinci

"I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods."

Wendell Berry

"I am two with nature."

Woody Allen

"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."

Walt Whitman

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

Frank Lloyd Wright

"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty."

Georgia O'Keeffe

"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

"I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it."

Debbie Harry

"I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines."

Henry David Thoreau

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."

John Burroughs

"I know why familles were created, with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed."

Anais Nin

"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."

Willa Cather

"I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future."

John F. Kennedy

"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in."

George Washington Carver

"I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature."

Abraham Crowley