My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.
One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
All nature wears one universal grin.
With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower.
Earth is a flower and it’s pollinating.
The groves were God’s first temples.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
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.
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
I’m very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
Sunlight is painting.
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
