I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Pearl S. Buck

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

A flower is an educated weed.

Luther Burbank

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

The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day.

Kenneth Patton

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Joseph Wood Krutch

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

John Steinbeck

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
The winds will blow their own freshness into you...
while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

John Muir

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

John Burroughs

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

James Russell Lowell

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Henry David Thoreau

I was determined to know beans. Walden

Henry David Thoreau

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

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Helen Keller

... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

George Santayana