"Old and new put their stamp
on everything in nature."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nature, like a loving mother,
is ever trying to keep land and sea,
mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush
the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes
of heat and cold, of rain and drought..that peace,
harmony and beauty may reign supreme."
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"In those vernal seasons of the year,
when the air is calm and pleasant,
it were an injury and sullenness against
Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and
partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth."
-John Milton

"I go now to the wilderness
to be a part of it;
to accept my place in the world
and its place in me; to grow into
reality as a tree grows into the rain,
to conform to the Earth as a stream
conforms to the stones of its bed.
To live. To aspire. To be."
-William Ashworth

"The motion felt by a man
in the presence of nature
certainly counts for something
in the origin of religions."
-Henry Bergson

"Man is incomprehensible without Nature,
and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man.
For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as
much in the human eye as in its own fragile
petals, and the splendor of the heavens as much
in the imagination that kindles at the touch of
their gloryas in the shining of countless worlds."
-Hamilton Wright Mabie

"There is no climate, no place,
and scarcely an hour, in which nature
does not exhibit color which no mortal
effort can imitate or approach.
For all our artificial pigments are,
even when seen under the same circumstances,
dead and lightless beside her living color;
nature exhibits her hues
under an intensity of sunlight
which trebles their brilliancy."
-John Ruskin