In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous
Aristotle

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children.
Audubon, John James

The world is more complicated than most of our theories make it out to be.
Berkeley, Edmund C

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity ... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
Blake, William

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
Blake, William

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding.
Bronowski, Jacob

Give me a spark of Nature's fire. That's all the learning I desire.
Burns, Robert

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.
Burroughs, John

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

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Carson, Rachel Louise

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
Carson, Rachel Louise

In every out-thrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is a story of the earth.
Carson, Rachel Louise

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse
Carswell, James

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Carter Jr, President Jimmy (James) Earl

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Clarke, Arthur Charles

Nature never breaks her own laws.
Da Vinci, Leonardo

In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we have been taught.
Dioum, Baba

Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
Donne, John

Self-defence is nature’s oldest law.
Dryden, John

The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees; Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state; and in three more decays.
Dryden, John

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts: The sight of the deep-blue sky, and the clustering stars above, seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
Edwards, Jonathan

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world...Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying...on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.
Erdrich, Louise

If you poison the environment, the environment will poison you.
Follari, Tony

Sweet is the hour of rest,
Pleasant the wind's low sigh,
And the gleaming of the west,
And the turf whereon we lie.
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne