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• How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ~Emily Dickinson, letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper, 1880
  
  
• In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height; In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth. ~ Sir Rabindranath Tagore
  
  
• I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938
  
  

• What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! ~Logan Pearsall Smith
  
  

• Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. ~Standing Bear
  
  

• How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ~John Muir
  
  

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

• 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
  
  

• God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. ~Martin Luther
  
  

• Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. ~Osho
  
  

• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
  
  

• Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~Kahlil Gibran