Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I; But when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. – Christina Rossetti

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. – Wordsworth

I only went for a walk and finally concluded to stay out til sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. – John Muir

Nature, wild nature, dwells in gardens just as she dwells in the tangled woods, in the deep of the sea, and on the heights of the mountains; and the wilder the garden, the more you will see of her. – Herbert Ravenel Sass

Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher. – Williams Wordsworth

The earth has music for those who will listen. – Shakespeare

We need the tonic of wilderness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. – Henry David […]

Mysterious and little-known creatures live within reach of where you sit. Splendor awaits in minute proportions. – E.O.Wilson

If my first glance of the morning was for the sun, my first thought was for the butterflies it would engender. – Vladimir Nabokov

On foggy mornings, Charlotte’s web was truly a thing of beauty. This morning each thin strand was decorated with dozens of tiny beads of water. The web glistened in the light and made a pattern of loveliness and mystery like a delicate veil. – E.B.White