"Nature and peace are my shelter and companion."

Wayne Kramer

"Flowers have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind."

Henry Ward Beecher

June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887

"Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun."

Kahlil Gibran

January 6, 1883 - April 10, 1931

"Flowers are beautiful hieroglyphics of nature, with which she indicates how much she loves us."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832

"Still -- in a way -- nobody sees a flower -- really -- it is so small -- we haven't the time -- and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time."

Georgia O'Keeffe

November 15, 1887 - March 6, 1986

"The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

"If the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive."

Eleanora Duse

October 3, 1858 - April 21, 1924

"A true creature of the night, green, golden, soft, velvety, gracing my day, because the light lured her from the night."

Raymond A. Foss

born 1960

"The butterfly. Exquisite child of the air."

Alice Freeman Palmer

February 21, 1855 - December 6, 1902

"The earth laughs in flowers."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

"Flowers are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul."

Luther Burbank

March 7, 1849 - April 11, 1926

"Butterflies are colorful and bright and gentle and have no way to harm you. They go about their business and bring others pleasure while doing it."

Dolly Parton

(born January 19, 1946)

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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