Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. --William Hazlitt (in The Connection Between Business & Poetry)

There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself. --John Muir (in Help Your Kids Connect the Dots)

Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast. --William Shakespeare (in Why Sleeping May Be More Important Than Studying)

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery (in Manic Nation: Why We're Addicted to Stress)

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (in The Day I Stopped Saying Hurry Up)

Children are born with a sense of wonder and an affinity for Nature. Properly cultivated, these values can mature into ecological literacy, and eventually into sustainable patterns of living. --Zenobia Barlow (in Leave No Child Inside)

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. --Albert Einstein (in How To Increase Your Compassion Bandwidth)

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. --Albert Einstein (in Fritjof Capra on Nature & Community)

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. --John Muir (in Of Webs, Boxes and Boundaries)

As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature. --Emily Greene Balch (in Casa De Paz: Oakland's House of Peace)

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity... --John Muir (in 6 Promising Trends For The New Nature Movement)

I believe our true nature IS kindness and that when we are not acting out of fear we act out of love. --Glinda (in 60 Kind Acts For My 60th Birthday)

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. --Mother Theresa (in The Endangered Sounds of Silence)

Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things. --Jack Kornfield (in Saturday In New York With Gitanjali)

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ---William Shakespeare- (in The Magic of Spinning)

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. --Albert Einstein (in Surprising Lessons from Nature's Engineers)

The present-day gap between kids and nature emerges as one of the greatest and most overlooked crises of our time. --Scott D. Sampson (in The Importance of Swapping Screen Time For Sunshine)

Sometimes the best thing about us isn't what we're gifted with, but what we can make others feel just by our very nature of existing. --Sarah Noffke (in Service Surf Dog Ricochet )

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. --Albert Einstein (in Ten Words Technology Borrowed from Nature)

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. --Albert Einstein (in The Complex Relationship Between Nature and Culture)

We design human nature by designing the institutions within which people live and work. --Barry Schwartz (in The Way We Think About Work Is Broken)

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. --John Muir (in How Nature Can Make You Kinder and Happier)

Nature does not hurry, and yet everything is accomplished. --Lao Tzu (in #MakeVirtueViral: A Graduation Speech for Uncertain Times)

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. --Albert Einstein (in A World of Solutions)

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. --Alfred Austin (in Former Dress Shop Owner Feeds Thousands Through Gardening)

Our task must be to free ourselves ... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures, and the whole of nature, and its beauty. --Albert Einstein (in Bolivia's Law of Mother Earth)

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. --Albert Einstein (in How to Raise an Environmentalist)

Nature itself is the best physician. --Hippocrates (in How to Protect Against Nature-Deficit Disorder)

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. --Albert Einstein (in Before the Flood: Leonardo DiCaprio's Exploration of Our Planet')

Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast. --William Shakespeare (in How Sleep Resets the Brain's Emotional Compass)

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. --Lao Tzu (in Are You A Leader or a Follower?)

Let yourself be surrounded by nature at its best, calm yourself, focus, and let magic do the rest. --Sally Walker (in Become Your Own Greenspace)

We do not govern simply through laws and by force, but by example -- by what we reveal of our basic values in relation to Nature and a resident people. --John Haines (in The Refuge)

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. --John Muir (in Earth Guardians: Responding to Global Crisis)

Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as ourselves, it could become essential to our rescue. --Karl-Henrik Robert (in Turning Waste Streams Into Value Streams)

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. --May Sarton (in Will Rosenzweig: Business Lessons from a Quiet Gardener)

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life. --Lin Yutang (in Wu De: Tea Is the Great Connector)

Animals stimulate us not only by touch, but by some deeply buried aspect of nature within us, a connection to part of something greater, more healthy, more whole. --Peter Levine (in The Boy & Dog Who Changed Each Other's Lives Forever)

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul. --Alfred Austin (in Garden Gloves)

We have to drop our creative, competitive hostilities and form the kind of cooperative that the whole Earth is already. Humans have to create our cooperative within Nature. --Elisabet Sahtouris (in Elisabet Sahtouris on Ecosophy)

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. --Henry Ward Beecher (in The Remarkable Story of An Artist Who Never Spoke a Word)

Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
--John Muir (in The Wisdom of the Animals)

Art is a harmony parallel with nature. --Paul Cezanne (in Turning Rain, Ice and Trees into Ephemeral Works)

We're impermanent as ripples in a lake and bubbles in a river. But our true nature is the water that pours down. --Joanna Macy (in Joanna Macy: We Belong)

Nature is too big, too unknowable and multidimensional to be contained within a picture frame. --David Ulrich (in My Song to Nature)

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
--Thomas Henry Huxley (in Where Do Camels Really Come From?)

Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher. --William Wordsworth (in Barbara Kingsolver: My Crazy Summer of Squash)

Community isn't a particular lifestyle but a universal form of existence. We are community beings by our very nature. --Martin Winiecki (in Unlearning Together)

Everything that slow us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. --May Sarton (in Growing a Cross-Cultural Garden)

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. --John Muir (in Call of the Mountain)