“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
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“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.”
“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.”
“The bluebird carries the sky on his back.”
“Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.”
“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.”
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
“When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.”
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
“Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.”
“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”
“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.”
“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.”
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
“I am two with nature.”
“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”
“Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”
“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”
“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”
“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.”
“Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.”