“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”
“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
“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.”
The good man is the friend of all living things.
“Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.”
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.”
“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.”
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
“O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
“With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.”
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
“The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.”
We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
“In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.”