The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

e.e. cummings

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

Morris K. Udall

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on so support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

Oscar Wilde

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

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alfred Bernhard Nobel

Alfred Bernhard Nobel

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

Miriam Makeba

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

Elbert Hubbard

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

John Heywood

To one who has been long in city pent,
'Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven, - to breathe a prayer
Full in the smile of the blue firmament.

John Keats

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me.

William Hazlitt

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

William Shakespeare

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Henry David Thoreau