🌿 Nature

“The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense knew we were coming.”

— Freeman Dyson

#nature #universe #design

“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee. One clover and a bee and revery.”

— Emily Dickinson

#nature #prairie #simplicity

“If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#nature #trees #wisdom

“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”

— Muir

#nature #trees #discovery

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#nature #mindfulness #walking

“Study nature love nature stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#nature #study #faithfulness

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#nature #spiritual #human

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery air mountains trees people. I thought this is what it is to be happy.”

— Sylvia Plath

#nature #happiness #breathing

“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things man will not himself find peace.”

— Albert Schweitzer

#nature #compassion #peace

“Come forth into the light of things let nature be your teacher.”

— William Wordsworth

#nature #learning #light

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.”

— Walt Whitman

#nature #sunshine #optimism

“Start by doing what is necessary then do what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

— Saint Francis of Assisi

#nature #possibility #progress

“It is the people who must save the environment. It is the people who must make their leaders change.”

— Wangari Maathai

#nature #activism #change

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”

— Unknown

#nature #adversity #resilience

“The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.”

— Terry Tempest Williams

#nature #future #vision

“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”

— Claude Monet

#nature #inspiration #art

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#nature #beauty #stars

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”

— Pablo Neruda

#nature #spring #resilience

“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

#nature #broadcasting #divine

“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of it. Life is long enough and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.”

— Seneca

#nature #time #wisdom

“The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.”

— Alexander von Humboldt

#nature #travel #perspective

“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain the sound of wind in a primeval wood and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.”

— Henry Beston

#nature #sounds #elements

“The earth has music for those who listen.”

— William Shakespeare

#nature #listening #beauty

“In some Native languages the term for plants translates to those who take care of us.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

#nature #plants #caretakers

“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.”

— John Muir

#nature #walking #gifts

“All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”

— Julian of Norwich

#nature #trust #wellbeing

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”

— Rachel Carson

#nature #beauty #strength

“To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.”

— Dogen

#nature #self #enlightenment

“To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.”

— Dogen Zenji

#nature #self #enlightenment

“The earth is what we all have in common.”

— Wendell Berry

#nature #earth #unity

“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity stability and beauty of the biotic community.”

— Aldo Leopold

#nature #ethics #community

“God is one supreme among gods and men not at all like mortals in body or mind.”

— Xenophanes

#nature #divine #supreme

“Nature is not a temple but a workshop and man is the workman in it.”

— Ivan Turgenev

#nature #workshop #work

“Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.”

— Albert Einstein

#nature #understanding #depth

“The least flower with a brimming cup may stand and shade my head from burning sun.”

— Thomas Merton

#nature #flowers #shelter

“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

#nature #gratitude #wonder

“The earth has music for those who listen.”

— George Santayana

#nature #music #listening

“In every outward-reaching effort of life there is a wondrous diversity.”

— Rachel Carson

#nature #diversity #wonder

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly.”

— Buckminster Fuller

#nature #transformation #butterfly

“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”

— Ansel Adams

#nature #exploration #experience

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order.”

— John Burroughs

#nature #healing #senses

“The first peace which is the most important is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship their oneness with the universe.”

— Black Elk

#nature #peace #oneness

“Live now believe me wait not till tomorrow. Gather the roses of life today.”

— Pierre de Ronsard

#nature #roses #seizing

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

— John Muir

#nature #walking #receiving

“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me. Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.”

— Hafiz

#nature #love #generosity

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore.”

— Lord Byron

#nature #solitude #pleasure

“Nature does nothing in vain.”

— Baruch Spinoza

#nature #purpose #philosophy

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#nature #self-discovery #wilderness

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat tears or the sea.”

— Isak Dinesen

#nature #sea #healing

“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is infinite.”

— Aldous Huxley

#nature #perception #infinity

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

#nature #time #moments

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me fluttering from the autumn tree.”

— Emily Bronte

#nature #autumn #bliss

“As long as humanity continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings it will never know health or peace.”

— Pythagoras

#nature #harmony #peace

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.”

— William Blake

#perception #nature #beauty

“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”

— Masanobu Fukuoka

#nature #farming #growth

“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”

— Mary Oliver

#nature #attention #wonder

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

— Rumi

#nature #beauty #purpose

“Water is the driving force of all nature.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

#nature #water #force

“The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.”

— John Muir

#nature #forest #universe

“No water, no life. No blue, no green.”

— Sylvia Earle

#nature #ocean #water

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”

— D.H. Lawrence

#nature #resilience #wildness

“After you have exhausted what there is in business politics conviviality and so on and found that none of these finally satisfy what remains is nature.”

— Walt Whitman

#nature #fulfillment #wisdom

“All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.”

— Marie Curie

#nature #wonder #joy

“I dont want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”

— Diane Ackerman

#nature #life #width

“The best remedy for those who are afraid lonely or unhappy is to go outside somewhere where they can be quiet alone with the heavens nature and God.”

— Anne Frank

#nature #solitude #remedy

“Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.”

— Pliny the Elder

#nature #small creatures #wonder

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

— Khalil Gibran

#nature #connection #joy

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

— Lao Tzu

#nature #patience #tao

“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.”

— Wendell Berry

#nature #earth #responsibility

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

— Simone Weil

#nature #attention #generosity

“Trees are the earths endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

#nature #trees #communication

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

— John Muir

#nature #mountains #adventure

“Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.”

— Francis Bacon

#nature #obedience #command

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.”

— Matsuo Basho

#nature #stillness #spring

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

— Rachel Carson

#nature #attention #peace

“Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.”

— Vincent van Gogh

#nature #art #understanding

“Colors are the smiles of nature.”

— Leigh Hunt

#color #nature #beauty

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”

— Oscar Wilde

#nature #flower #joy

“What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

— Jane Goodall

#nature #action #choice

“The greatest wealth is health.”

— Virgil

#nature #health #wealth

“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable like force and matter. When they separate man is no more.”

— Nikola Tesla

#nature #duality #wholeness

“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”

— Helen Keller

#nature #simplicity #comfort

“Nature is a petrified magic city.”

— Novalis

#nature #magic #wonder

“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#nature #freedom #acceptance

“No one will protect what they dont care about and no one will care about what they have never experienced.”

— David Attenborough

#nature #protection #experience

“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished.”

— Lao Tzu

#nature #patience #accomplishment

“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.”

— Muir

#nature #beauty #bread

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”

— Vincent van Gogh

#nature #beauty #love

“We are a spectacular splendid manifestation of life.”

— Lewis Thomas

#nature #life #wonder

“The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles no matter how long but only by a spiritual journey.”

— Wendell Berry

#nature #journey #spirit

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”

— Victor Hugo

#nature #dreams #future

“The age of nations is past. The task before us now if we would not perish is to build the earth.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#nature #unity #building

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

— Victor Hugo

#nature #hope #perseverance

“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them whoever knows how to listen to them can learn the truth.”

— Herman Hesse

#nature #trees #truth

“A true conservationist is someone who knows that the world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.”

— John James Audubon

#nature #conservation #legacy

“In spite of myself the insidious mastery of song betrays me back till the heart of me weeps to belong to the old Sunday evenings at home.”

— Thomas Hardy

#nature #nostalgia #belonging

“Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'”

— Robin Williams

#nature #spring #joy

“Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”

— Maria Mitchell

#nature #science #praise

“If there is magic on this planet it is contained in water.”

— Loren Eiseley

#nature #water #wonder

“There is no substitute for hard work.”

— Thomas Edison

#nature #work #effort

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#nature #love #trust

“In every outward and visible grace of life there is an inward and spiritual grace.”

— Rachel Carson

#nature #grace #spirit

“Let us cultivate our garden.”

— Voltaire

#nature #garden #cultivation

“Live in each season as it passes breathe the air drink the drink taste the fruit and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#nature #seasons #surrender

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#nature #wandering #exploration

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

— Thomas Browne

#nature #art #divine

“In all chaos there is a cosmos in all disorder a secret order.”

— Carl Jung

#nature #chaos #order

“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”

— E. E. Cummings

#nature #playfulness #spring

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.”

— Aldo Leopold

#nature #land #ethics

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”

— Hafiz

#nature #light #being

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

— Aristotle

#nature #marvel #wonder

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see yourself running with them.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#nature #stars #beauty

“The landscape retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know.”

— Barry Lopez

#nature #landscape #mystery

“Heaven and earth and I were produced together and all things and I are one.”

— Zhuangzi

#nature #oneness #unity

“Be realistic plan for a miracle.”

— Osho

#nature #miracles #planning

“Above all I have been a sentient being a thinking animal on this beautiful planet.”

— Oliver Sacks

#nature #sentience #planet

“I have discovered that the wilderness has a mysterious quality of its own.”

— Sigurd Olson

#nature #wilderness #mystery

“An old silent pond a frog jumps into the pond splash silence again.”

— Matsuo Basho

#nature #stillness #zen

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#nature #spirit #colors

“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”

— Lao Tzu

#nature #authenticity #self

“The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.”

— Plato

#nature #self-mastery #victory

“Some say an army of horsemen some an army of foot and some of ships is the fairest thing on the black earth but I say it is what you love.”

— Sappho

#nature #love #beauty

“Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, you owe me. Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.”

— Hafiz

#nature #sun #generosity

“The nitrogen in our DNA the calcium in our teeth the iron in our blood the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars.”

— Carl Sagan

#nature #stars #elements

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.”

— Walt Whitman

#nature #grass #cosmos

“In every outward push of the sea is a vast and remarkable patience.”

— Rachel Carson

#nature #ocean #patience

“I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.”

— Queen Elizabeth I

#nature #authenticity #love

“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself what if I had never seen this before what if I knew I would never see it again.”

— Rachel Carson

#nature #eyes #wonder

“The sweetest of all sounds is praise.”

— Xenophon

#nature #praise #sound

“The earth laughs in flowers.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#nature #flowers #joy

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am I am I am.”

— Sylvia Plath

#nature #breath #existence

“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”

— E.O. Wilson

#nature #satisfaction #wholeness

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong we may begin to use it with love and respect.”

— Aldo Leopold

#nature #land #community

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.”

— Wallace Stegner

#nature #wilderness #preservation

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.”

— Isak Dinesen

#nature #ocean #healing

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch

#nature #mind #fire

“Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world.”

— John Muir

#nature #trees #discovery

“The beauty of the trees the softness of the air the fragrance of the grass speaks to me.”

— Chief Dan George

#nature #beauty #senses

“Every person born into this world their work is born with them.”

— James Russell Lowell

#nature #purpose #birth

“Water is the first principle of all things.”

— Thales of Miletus

#nature #water #origin

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”

— Gary Snyder

#nature #home #belonging

“Only to the white man was nature a wilderness and only to him was it infested with wild animals and savage people.”

— Luther Standing Bear

#nature #indigenous #perspective

“There is no wealth but life.”

— John Ruskin

#nature #life #wealth

“The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

#nature #butterfly #moments

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

— Kahlil Gibran

#nature #joy #connection

“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.”

— Charles Dickens

#nature #seasons #beauty

“Where we love is home home that our feet may leave but not our hearts.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#nature #home #love

“Where flowers bloom so does hope.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

#nature #flowers #hope

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe think in terms of energy frequency and vibration.”

— Nikola Tesla

#nature #energy #vibration

“The ecological crisis is a crisis of character not a crisis of resources.”

— Arne Naess

#nature #ecology #character

“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us giving us moments of wonder and joy.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

#nature #wounded world #gratitude

“There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm.”

— Willa Cather

#nature #learning #storms

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

— John Muir

#nature #interconnection #web

“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.”

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#nature #grandeur #divinity

“The observer when he seems to himself to be observing a stone is really observing the effects of the stone upon himself.”

— Bertrand Russell

#nature #observation #perception

“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”

— Khalil Gibran

#nature #trees #poetry

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

#nature #seasons #questions

“The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.”

— Chief Seattle

#nature #belonging #indigenous

“The moon is the mirror of time.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

#nature #moon #time

“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”

— Jane Austen

#nature #rest #simplicity

“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”

— Muir of Dinnet

#nature #exploration #urgency

“Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.”

— Annie Dillard

#nature #beauty #presence

“In nature nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted bent in weird ways and they are still beautiful.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#nature #imperfection #beauty

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

— John Keats

#nature #poetry #earth

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world.”

— Margaret Mead

#nature #community #change

“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

#nature #sun #generosity

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every mans needs but not every mans greed.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

#nature #earth #sufficiency

“Study nature love nature stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

— Cicero

#nature #study #loyalty

“Look to this day for it is life the very life of life.”

— Kalidasa

#nature #present #life

“Spring passes and one remembers ones innocence.”

— Yoko Ono

#nature #spring #innocence

“If we surrendered to earths intelligence we could rise up rooted like trees.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#nature #surrender #rootedness

“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.”

— Mary Oliver

#nature #life #purpose

“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”

— Thoreau

#nature #wildness #preservation

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#nature #seasons #presence

“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, they can learn more than what is in books.”

— George Washington Carver

#nature #learning #woods

“To live content with small means to seek elegance rather than luxury.”

— Thomas Moore

#nature #contentment #simplicity

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

— Jane Goodall

#nature #action #responsibility

“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#nature #miracle #presence

“You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”

— Vandana Shiva

#nature #earth #humility

“The soul is healed by being with children.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#nature #children #healing

“The land retains an identity of its own still deeper and more subtle than we can know.”

— Barry Lopez

#nature #land #identity

“I dont want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”

— Diane Ackerman

#nature #life #fullness

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

— William Shakespeare

#nature #connection #humanity

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

— George Eliot

#nature #potential #renewal

“The universe is not a collection of objects, but a communion of subjects.”

— Thomas Berry

#nature #universe #connection

“Nature made us for the open air and the sunlight.”

— Giacomo Leopardi

#nature #outdoors #purpose

“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#nature #wildness #preservation

“Come forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher.”

— William Wordsworth

#nature #learning #light

“Reading about nature is fine but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully he can learn more than what is in books.”

— George Washington Carver

#nature #learning #experience

“The universe is not a collection of objects but a communion of subjects.”

— Thomas Berry

#nature #connection #communion

“Apprehend God in all things for God is in all things.”

— Meister Eckhart

#nature #divinity #awareness

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.”

— Matsuo Basho

#nature #wisdom #seeking

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”

— Edith Wharton

#nature #openness #daylight

“There is grandeur in this view of life.”

— Charles Darwin

#nature #grandeur #evolution

“A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.”

— Gaston Bachelard

#nature #space #experience

“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.”

— Confucius

#nature #beauty #perception

“No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.”

— Zen Proverb

#nature #snowflake #perfection

“I must have flowers always and always.”

— Claude Monet

#nature #flowers #necessity

“Nature never hurries, yet everything is accomplished.”

— Lao Tzu

#nature #patience #wisdom

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference.”

— Robert Frost

#nature #roads #choice

“The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a mans heart away from nature becomes hard.”

— Luther Standing Bear

#nature #heart #wisdom

“There is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one.”

— Charles Darwin

#nature #evolution #grandeur

“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic intellectual cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”

— E.O. Wilson

#nature #satisfaction #wholeness

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than one seeks.”

— Ansel Adams

#nature #walking #abundance

“We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we begin to use it with love and respect.”

— Aldo Leopold

#nature #land #respect

“No one will protect what they dont care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced.”

— David Attenborough

#nature #experience #conservation

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

— Walt Whitman

#nature #garden #morning

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

#nature #flowers #sweetness

“Sitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself.”

— Bashō

#nature #spring #stillness

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#nature #earth #wonder

“In the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti full of peace and joy but encompassed by all the horrors of the half-lived life.”

— Herman Melville

#nature #soul #peace

“Nature is the living visible garment of God.”

— Goethe

#nature #divine #garment

“Even a small window is a wormhole to a world beyond our imagining.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

#nature #window #world

“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”

— John Muir

#nature #pines #doorway

“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”

— Walt Whitman

#nature #growth #earth

“Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.”

— Annie Dillard

#nature #beauty #presence

“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”

— Epicurus

#nature #friendship #happiness

“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.”

— Voltaire

#nature #happiness #health

“The earth is weeping and laughing simultaneously.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#nature #duality #emotion

“It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.”

— Nikolai Gogol

#nature #self-reflection #truth

“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#nature #uncertainty #life

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

— Mary Oliver

#nature #life #purpose

“If you truly love nature you will find beauty everywhere.”

— Vincent van Gogh

#nature #love #beauty

“The moon goes down beauty is shut in behind its doors.”

— Tu Fu

#nature #moon #beauty

“We sit together the mountain and me until only the mountain remains.”

— Li Bai

#nature #meditation #mountain

“The sun with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”

— Galileo Galilei

#nature #sun #attention

“The moment one gives close attention to anything even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious awesome indescribably magnificent world in itself.”

— Henry Miller

#nature #attention #magnificence

“Smile breathe and go slowly.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#nature #mindfulness #slowness

“One cannot think well love well sleep well if one has not dined well.”

— Virginia Woolf

#nature #nourishment #wellbeing

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. Remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

— Epicurus

#nature #gratitude #contentment

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#nature #woods #deliberate

“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”

— William Blake

#nature #infinity #wonder

“The glory of nature is that it is incomprehensible.”

— Freeman Dyson

#nature #mystery #glory

“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.”

— Emerson

#nature #pace #patience

“The tortoise like other reptiles has an arbitrary stomach as well as lungs and can refrain from eating as well as breathing for a great part of the year.”

— Gilbert White

#nature #animals #adaptation

“The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand.”

— Annie Dillard

#nature #generosity #abundance

“It is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters in the end.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#nature #journey #destination

“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy and after all our most pleasing responsibility.”

— Wendell Berry

#nature #responsibility #stewardship

“When we plant trees we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.”