“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
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“It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
“Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?”
“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”
“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”
“Everything is blooming most recklessly if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.”
“Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.”
“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”
“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.”
“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
“Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.”
“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”
“Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'”
“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
“In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.”
“It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.”
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”
“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.”
“Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.”