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

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

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 Dostoevsky, "The_Brothers_Karamazov"' 

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence - Hazrat Inayat Khan

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essentail facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. - Henry David Thoreau

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. - Henry David Thoreau

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. - John Cage

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

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. - 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

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

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

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us,the less taste we shall have for destruction. - Rachel Carson, "Silent Spring" 

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" 

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
- Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass"

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
- Pierre Auguste Renoir

Nature wants children to be children before men . . . Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, In Humanity.. 

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.. 

I want meadows red in tone and trees painted in blue. Nature has no imagination. - Charlse Baudelaire, In Imagination..

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.- Blaise Pascal, In Time/Infinity.. 

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. - Henry David Thoreau, In Senses/Sight.. 

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/Nature..

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature - Auguste Renoir, In Art/Nature.. 

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/Nature