First, the wind would rumble in the distance like an approaching river, then he would see grass bend, pressed by a great invisible hand. The dull rumble would rise in pitch to a swishing, lashing...

Explore the deep ocean.

Nature was neither fair nor unfair. Those terms belonged to the world of men.

Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all...

In these days of instant gratification and electronic wizardry there are still some people, real people, who do not panic when their telephones fail because the batteries need re-charging. Instead...

Plants and Books are silent Friends to Mankind. The former grows silently to let you live. The later grows you silently to 'live'.

Nature is Satan's church.

Invite Tranquility The sea, - - Something to look at When we are angry.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. I have heard them all, and of the three elemental...

Trees quiver in the wind, sailing on a sea of mist out of earshot.

I felt the full breadth and depth of the ocean around the sphere of the Earth, back billions of years to the beginning of life, across all the passing lives and deaths, the endless waves of swimming...

Down the hill I went, and then, I forgot the ways of men, For night - scents, heady and damp and cool Wakened ecstasy

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.

Magnificent beauty of nature inviting you to long for her, to love her, and then purify your heart and mind with the illuminating beauty of nature.

Trees are the soul collectors come to life.

When I walk in the forest just before the meal, while reciting the scriptural phrase that I meditate for that day, spiritual joy comes over me as if by appointment.

Up past the old lime kiln built into the side of a hill we take a hard right at a clearing lined by brittle apple trees still willing to bear fruit. I snap sticks beneath my feet and steal pictures of...

We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking' wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.

Nature attunes children to receive the coded messages that parents issue how to live a joyful and virtuous life.

Dawn is a friend of the muses, even if they aren't awake to appreciate it.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature...

The early dew - falls that did a pristine coating, over the woods with its finest transparency, glazed as like its wet white - glassy earrings that hung on the ears of wild flowers - unlatched my...

A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground

The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.

All our wisdom is stored in the trees.

If God were to make a million lovely flowers in your image and plant them in a garden with you among them, I would still know you by your scent and by the feel of your petals and by the crazy way you...

Speak truth and believe in the power of truth, the more you will believe in yourself, the more you will see the beauty of nature and mother earth.

It's the sound of the sea that makes you believe in mermaids.

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