You have friends and one of them is your best friend. And now, make the nature as your second best friend and spend time often with it!

The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once again, the warm tears freeze upon my face. These rocks and mountains, all...

It was difficult to get winners because of the slow nature of the court, but I am happy to be in the final here again. The crowd really got behind me, they really get emotionally...

Life has always poppies in her hands.

Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.

Born of antimodern sentiment, the summer camp was ultimately a modern phenomenon, a “therapeutic space” as much dependent on the city, the factory, and “progress” to define its parameters as on that intangible but much...

I know that men are so eager to be one among the stars.I feel that damaged earth will never let men go off hand.

And here lies the crux of the matter: to say that nature is personal may mean not so much seeing the world differently as acting differently — or, to state it another way, it may...

In ev’ry life there comes a winter bleak That, in it, never yet seems life to come And on each heart such desolation wreak That even light from Heaven seems succumb’.But, even as in year,...

In a way that I haven’t yet figured out how to fully articulate, I believe that children who get to see bald eagles, coyotes, deer, moose, grouse, and other similar sights each morning will have...

Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop...

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours — to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he...

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it…” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking; discontinuous for reason and observation. The human senses break it down but the unconvinced mind unites it.

There is eloquence in the tonguelesswind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of thereeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to somethingwithin the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance...

I can’t work without a model. I won’t say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter...

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it… ”Beware of me,” it says, ”but if you can hold me, I am the key...

…nature as a whole was an exceptionally fine illustration of science.

The strongest love is that which flows out of fear.

He says that woman speaks with nature. That she hears voices from under the earth. That wind blows in her ears and trees whisper to her. That the dead sing through her mouth and the...

[W]e cease to be soldiers in the army of the upright; we become deserters. They march to battle. We float with the sticks on the stream; helter-skelter with the dead leaves on the lawn, irresponsible...

Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. It’s only human nature

I don’t believe that the Scots were always frugal, now that I have read our mean history. Once the land was without mankind and was covered with trees – most of these heaths and moors...

I feel like I have lost all control. I am going to roll with it.

They were contemplating moving into another house or, more exactly, loudly saying to each other, so as to be overheard by anyone who might be listening, that they were contemplating moving, when all at once...

The nature of atheism merits clarification on two further points which involve less common ideas about theism. The first involves the idea of ‘God’ which is metaphorical — for example, a theist who believes in...

We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has been based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty...

I believe in Christ like I believe in the sun – not because I can see it, but by it I can see everything else.

Apparence de paixPas de carnage ici, pas de mise à mort.Les drames de l’histoire sont parfoiscomme une musique qui demeureau fond d’un champ où l’on marcheparmi le bruissement du maïs,aimanté par des oiseaux fousà l’orée...

But don’t worry,” she continued. “Most snakes don’t want to hurt you. If you’re out in the bush and a snake comes along, just stop dead and let it slide over your shoes.”This, I decided,...

The dependency of the human element on Planet Earth is a profoundly personal relationship with Nature’s Mom.

What does this think about that?Nothing thinks about anything.Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants?If it did, it would be people. . .Why am I worrying about this?If I think about these...

When is the last time your computer restarted you? Don’t forget about nature. Recreation means to re-create yourself.

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.

Why?”He stopped pacing and looked at her as if she’d just asked him to count every leaf on every tree in the Old Place. “Because… you’re you.

Naturally there was the notion of private property as a pragmatic concept, for individuals or groups have a proclivity to tend to their own possessions with greater care and reverence than they would to common...

As people we narrowly get by with our lives each day, energy from our soft, delicate actions appearing like cherry blossoms, only once, and once for a short while. Eventually petals fall to the ground.

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper...

a single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous queen. and, in reply, a choir of seedlings arching their necks out of...

More and more, paddling the Yellowstone feels like that bedside visit, like we are attending to a friend in dire straits, a friend whom we have seen in the full bloom of health, but with...

Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form’d so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form’d no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks...

The source of all light is in the eye.

Coyotes move within a landscape of attentiveness. I have seen their eyes in the creosote bushes and among mesquite trees. They have watched me. And all the times that I saw no eyes, that I...

…a new day was starting, the things of the garden were not concerned with our troubles. A blackbird ran across the rose-garden to the lawns in swift, short rushes, stopping now and again to stab...

A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot...

Watu wakikuonyesha tabia zao za ndani kabisa usisubiri wakuonyeshe tena ndiyo uwaamini. Waamini kwa mara ya kwanza. Mtu, kwa mfano, akionyesha kwa mara ya kwanza kuwa si mwaminifu mwamini. Anajijua zaidi kuliko unavyomjua. Aidha, mtu...

Rain is Nature’s way of telling us to go slowly because the roads will soon be wet.

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

The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to save it. . . . If the race is won, humanity...