I inhale great droughts of space,

The east and the west are mine,

- and the north and south are mine.

I am larger than I thought,

I did not know I held so much goodness. - Walt Whitman

One touch of Nature makes the whole world kin. - Shakespeare

In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature, not to go out and see her riches and partake in her rejoicing with Heaven and Earth. - John Milton

Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps. - Amos Bronson Alcott

And this our life, exempt from public haunt,

Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,

Sermons in stones, and good in everything. - Shakespeare

Nature is too thin a screen - the glory of the Omnipresent God bursts through everywhere. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your sacred plants, if here below,

Only among the plants will grow.

Society is all but rude,

To this delicious solitude. - Andrew Marvell

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature. - Jean Louis Agassiz

Hast thou named all the birds - without a gun? Loved the wood-rose - and left it on its stalk? - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To my way of thinking, there's something wrong or missing, with any person who has not got a soft spot in their heart for an animal of some kind. - Will James

Whatever befalls in accordance with Nature shall be accounted good. - Cicero

All that thy seasons, Oh Nature, bring is fruit for me. All things come from thee, subsist in thee, go back to thee. - Marcus Aurelius