"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye -- it also includes the inner pictures of the soul"

Edvard Munch

December 12, 1863 - January 23, 1944

"Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence."

Alfred Billings Street

December 18, 1811 - June 2, 1881

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

Frank Lloyd Wright

June 8, 1867 - April 9, 1959

"Stand still and consider the wondrous works of God."

Job 37:14

"I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me."

William Hazlitt

April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830

"Flowers are like human beings ... they thrive on a little kindness."

Fred Streeter

contemporary author of gardening books

"I will be the gladdest thing under the sun. I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one."

Edna St. Vincent Millay

February 22, 1892 - October 19, 1950

"All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within."

Horace L. Friess

1900-1975

"The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much."

Thornton Wilder

April 17, 1897 - December 7, 1975

"I think it annoys God if you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice."

Alice Walker

born February 9, 1944

"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

January 1864 - January 5, 1943

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

Charles A. Lindbergh

February 4, 1902 - August 26, 1974

"The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you ... you can feel it."

Ted Trueblood

June 25, 1913 - September 12, 1982

"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."

William Hazlitt

April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830

"Nature wants children to be children before men . . . childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."

Iris Murdoch

July 15, 1919 - February 8, 1999

"The world will never starve for wonder, but only for want of wonder."

G. K. Chesterton

May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936

"If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way."

Aristotle

384 BC - 322 BC

"The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

"Flowers are heaven's masterpiece."

Dorothy Parker

August 22, 1893 - June 7, 1967

"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon the verdant green hills is the most perfect refreshment."

Jane Austin

December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."

John Keats

October 31, 1795 - February 23, 1821

"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"

Edgar Allan Poe

January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849

"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me."

Thomas Jefferson

April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826

"Great things are done when men and mountains meet."

William Blake

November 28, 1757 - August 12, 1827

"Be like the bird, who halting in his flight on limb too slight, feels it give way beneath him, yet sings knowing he hath wings."

Victor-Marie Hugo

February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885

"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

June 12, 1929 - early March, 1945

"Some of nature's most exquisite handiwork is on a miniature scale, as anyone knows who has applied a magnifying glass to a snowflake."

Rachel Carson

May 27, 1907 - April 14, 1964

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."

Henry David Thoreau

July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

June 29, 1900 - July 13, 1944

"God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars."

Martin Luther

November 10, 1483 - February 18, 1546