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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900De Profundis (1897)
Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887Life Thoughts (1858), p. 234
- God
One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.
Mark Twain1835–1910New England Weather, speech to the New England Society (December 22, 1876)
- Comedy
To one who has been long in city pent,
’Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven.
John Keats1795–1821Poems (1817)
Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walking (June 1862)
Man’s attitude toward nature is today critically important, simply because of his new-found power to destroy it.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Speech at Scripps College (June 1962)
What a book a Devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horridly cruel works of nature!
Charles Darwin1809–1882Letter to J.D. Hooker, 13 July 1856
Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the natural world that supports all life.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Silent Spring (1962)
A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure. It offers a necessity of life that must be rationed among those who have power over it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Writing for the Court, New Jersey v. New York, et al., 283 U.S. 336, 342 (1931).
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.
John Muir1838–1914The Yosemite (1912), chapter 15: Hetch Hetchy Valley
- Beauty
He that planteth a tree is the servant of God,
He provideth a kindness for many generations,
And faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
Henry van Dyke1852–1933The Friendly Trees.
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Speech before the Colorado Live Stock Association, Denver, Colorado (August 29, 1910); in The New Nationalism (1910), p. 52
- Responsibility
Nature has but one judgment on wrong conduct — if you can call that a judgment which seemingly has no reference to conduct as such — the judgment of death.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Address at the dedication of the Northwestern University Law School Building, Chicago, Illinois (20 October 1902); republished in Holmes’ Collected Legal Papers (1937), p. 272.
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
Thích Nhất Hạnh1926–2022Touching Peace (1992), p. 1. Parallax Press
- Beauty
Human subtlety…will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, ed. J. P. Richter, No. 837