Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

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

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, for they speak with the voice of God.

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.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

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

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