If I have learned nothing else in all these months in the woods, I have thoroughly learned to keep hands off the processes of nature.

                  –Laura Lee Davidson

They are much to be pitied who have not been… given a taste for nature early in life.

                                –Jane Austin

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding.

                     –Jacob Brownowski

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

To grow up in intimate association with nature — animal and vegetable — is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.

                           –Miles Franklin

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 sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still slowly ripen a fruit tree, as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.      —Galileo

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

The natural world is dynamic. From the expanding universe to the hair on a baby’s head, nothing is the same from now to the next moment.

                              –Helen Hoover

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