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)

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how
to use one's eyes.
-- George Sand (in The Magic of Moss and What it Teaches Us)

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. --Linda Hogan (in Recording the Healing Sounds of Nature)

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece... --E. O. Wilson (in Unexpected Art in Unexpected Places)

Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. --Albert Einstein (in This Library Takes an Indigenous Approach to Categorizing Books)

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. --Wendell Berry (in Wendell Berry on Caretaking)

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
-- Martin Luther (in Chitrakoot's Tree Man: 11 Years, 40,000 Trees)

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 My Summer of the Catbird)

If you speak for the trees, you speak for all of nature. --Diana Beresford (in Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees)

Interaction with self, with other human beings, and with Nature, all should lead to harmony and peace. That is the purpose of life. --Anand Damani (in Wild Borders)

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
--John Muir (in How Place Can Connect Us to Gratitude)

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
--John Muir (in Do You Remember Your Song)

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. --Gary Snyder (in Micah Mortali: Rewilding)

Within sorrow is grace. When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature. --Wayne Muller (in United in Change)

A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If .one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists. Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song. --Vera Nazarian (in Why Singing in a Choir Makes You Happier)

In our estrangement from nature we have severed our sense of the community of life and lost touch with the experience of other animals. ...understanding the human animal becomes easier in context, seeing our human thread woven into the living web among the strands of so many others. --Carl Safina (in Of Wild Wolves And Bottle-Fed Squirrels)

Everything we see and touch consists of matter rearranged by information and energy. Everything is in connections and bonds. Life, mind, and love, our human nature, have been created in partnership with the rules that run the world. --Paul R. Fleischman (in The Wonder of the Universe is Wondering in Us)

No matter how few possessions you own or how little money you have, loving wildlife and nature will make you rich beyond measure. --Paul Oxton (in A Window as Wide as the World)

Hope is a decisive element in any attempt to bring about social change in the direction of greater aliveness, awareness, and reason. But the nature of hope is often misunderstood and confused with attitudes that have nothing to do with hope and in fact are the very opposite. --Erich Fromm (in Erich Fromm: The Antidote to Helplessness and Disorientation)

Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
--Wendell Berry (in The Art of Being Creatures)

When one tugs at a single thing in nature,
he finds it attached to the rest of the world. --John Muir (in 5 Poems to Celebrate National Poetry Month)

I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain. --Carl Safina (in Mother Culture)

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander. --Henry David Thoreau (in The Taste of Wild Water)

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. --Blaise Pascal (in The Earth Treasure Vase Healing Project)

Nature--the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful--offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. --Richard Louv (in Last Child in the Woods)

Injustices started when we began to lose our relationship to nature and treat it just as a resource to be commodified. --Cherrie Moraga (in The Land Has Memory)

I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour. --George Washington Carver (in The Gift of Ecological Humility)

Soul is that unconditioned, mysterious, untamed, undomesticated, unique individual wild core of ourselves which is inextricably connected to the mysteries of wild nature. --Claire Dunn (in Claire Dunn: Nature's Apprentice)

In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life. --Vandana Shiva (in Reclaiming Our Common Home)

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.
--Rumi (in Rumi, Grace & Human Friendship)

Feeling is never invisible; it takes shape and manifests as form everywhere in nature. --Andreas Weber (in The Biology of Wonder: Finding the Human in Nature)

High alert is the nature of the moment, and rightly so, but I do not intend to lose the reality that as a culture we are entering deeply mythic ground. --Martin Shaw (in How to Recapture Your Imagination)

Man instinctively regards himself as a wanderer and wayfarer, and it is second nature for him to go on pilgrimage in search of a privileged and holy place, a center and source of indefectible life. --Thomas Merton (in On the Road with Thomas Merton)

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. --Martin Luther (in Finding the Mother Tree)

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. --Gary Snyder (in Re-inhabiting the World)

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. --Soren Kierkegaard (in Prayer for Atheists)

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realize that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn. --Gunter Grass (in Old Growth: The Best Writing About Trees)

I go to nature to be soothed, healed and have my senses put in order.
--John Burroughs (in How Nature Helps Us Heal)

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 Man on the Moon)

To listen to trees, nature's great connectors, is to learn how to inhabit the relationships that give life its source, substance, and beauty --David George Haskell (in The Log- Year 2)

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. --William Shakespeare (in Hargila: A Story of Love & Conservation)