Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page.

—William Cullen Bryant

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding.

—Jacob Brownowski

Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.                                                                     —John Muir

Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.                                                                                   —Mary Ann Brussat

There are for starters, grandeur and silence, pure water and clean air. There is also the gift of distance … the chance to stand away from relationships and daily ritual … and the gift of energy. Wilderness infuses us with its own special brand of energy.

—Lynn Thomas

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity ... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

—William Blake

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understanding and our hearts.              —William Hazlitt

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

—Werner Heisenberg

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.             —Isaac Bashevis Singer

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one’s eyes.   —George Sand

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness — ignorance, credulity — helps your enjoyment of these things.               —Walt Whitman