A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katharine Graham

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Rose Kennedy

A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
Rupert Brooke

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz

In summer, the song sings itself.
William Carlos Williams

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman

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

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

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
Ikkyu Sojun

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Hal Borland

Choose only one master – Nature.
Rembrandt

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Baker

Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth, and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world.
Brenda Peterson

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
J.M. Barrie

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
Joseph Conrad

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Toni Morrison

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare

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

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir

There is a wonderful law of nature that the three things we crave most- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind- are always attained by giving them to someone else.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus

Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.
Standing Bear

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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.
John Lubbock

Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gerard De Nerval

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
David Letterman

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Pam Brown

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.
Marilyn Monroe

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Antonio Porchia

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Our understandings are always liable to error Nature and certainty are very hard to come at, and infallibility is mere vanity and pretense.
Marcus Antonius

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
William Shakespeare

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.
Bernoulli

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John Muir