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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. --John Burroughs |
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Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. --Steven Weinberg |
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The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech. --Dogen |
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Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. --John Burroughs |
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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. --St. Bernard |
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The moon is like a mystery novel, the sun like a motivational self-help book, and the stars a coffee table book of photography. The sky is the whole library, and God the librarian. --Pepper Giardino |
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Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back. --Gwyn Thomas |
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The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. --William Channing |
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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. --Bertrand Russell |
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In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. --John Fowles |
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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. --Napoleon Hill |
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