The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entereing a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of books--a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.

- Albert Einstein

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

- Aldous Huxley

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.

- Baba Dioum

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

- C.S Lewis

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye -- it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

- Edvard Munch

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

- Edward Abbey

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

- Edward Abbey

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

- Frank Llyod Wright

Gentleman...look around you at the gifts of God, the clear sky, the pure air, the tender grass, the birds; nature is beautiful and sinless, and we, only we, are godless and foolish, and we don't understand that life is a paradise, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

- Henry David Thoreau

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, - except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

- John F. Kennedy

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

- John Muir

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that mountian parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life!

- John Muir

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

- Nikolai Berdyaev

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A clear breeze has no price, the bright moon no owner.

- Song Hun

Who can own a tree?

- The Indian Guy In "Ernest Goes To Camp"

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

- ierre Auguste Renoir

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.

- Auguste Rodin, In Art

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

- Edgar Allan Poe, In Art

I want meadows red in tone and trees painted in blue. Nature has no imagination.

- Charlse Baudelaire, In Imagination

Truth and love are my law and worship; Form and conscience my manifestation and guide; Nature and peace are my shelter and companion; Order is my attitude; Beauty and perfection are my attack.

- Wayne Kramer, In Humanity

Nature wants children to be children before men . . . Childhood has its own seeing, thinkin and feeling.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, In Humanity

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature

- Auguste Renoir, In Art

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.