A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
~ Lou Holtz

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
~ Samuel Butler

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
~ Katharine Graham

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

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
~ William Wordsworth

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
~ Kin Hubbard

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

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

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
~ Emily Dickinson

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
~ Robert Redford

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
~ Aristotle

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
~ Charles Lindbergh

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
~ Hal Borland

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
~ Jimmy Carter

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
~ Ambrose Bierce

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
~ John Lubbock

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
~ e. e. cummings

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
~ George Santayana

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
~ James Whitcomb Riley

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
~ Hal Borland