"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished." - Francis Bacon

"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures." - Francis Bacon, Essays

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." - Francis Bacon, Novum Organum

"Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into." - Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts

"Do no dishonour to the earth lest you dishonour the spirit of man." - Henry Beston, The Outermost House

"As well expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks and balances, its measurements of competing life-all this is its great marvel and has an ethic of its own." - Henry Beston, The Outermost House

"To create a little flower is the labour of ages." - William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it." - Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History

"Nature abhors annihilation." - Cicero

"In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection." - Charles Darwin

"Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art." - Baltasar Gracian

"The kiss of sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth
One is nearer God's Heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth."
- Dorothy Gurney, The Lord God Planted a Garden

"The counterfeit and counterpart Of Nature reproduced in art." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle." - Marcus Aurelius

"Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image." - Blaise Pascal

"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God." - Alexander Pope

"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism." - Seneca

"Nature, red in tooth and claw." - Alfred Lord Tennyson

"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--His eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." - Bible (Romans 1:20)

"Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." - Cree Prophesy

"What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare." - Davies, W. H.

"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, we will understand only what we are taught." - Dioum, Baba

"Slavery always has, and always will, produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things, and no human power can much longer perpetuate it." - Grimke, Angelina

"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each." - Thoreau, Henry David

"If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist; that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it." - Voltaire (1694-1778) in 'Epitre a l'auteur de livre des trois imposteurs' 10 Nov 1770