Nature

*Authors are unknown, unless otherwise noted.

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness, has never danced in the rain

The sea!  The sea!  The open sea!  The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
~B. W. Pruter

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
~William Wordsworth

Silently, one by one in the infinite meadows of Heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of angels.
~Longfellow

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
~Shakespeare

Sea shell, sea shell, sing me a song, o please!  A song of ships and sailor men and parrots and tropical trees.
~A. Lowell

We shall find peace.  We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
~Chekov

I hope you find joy in the great things of life - but also in the little things. A flower, a song, a butterfly on your hand.
~Ellen Levine

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
~ John Keats

Beauty is God's handwriting.
~ Charles Kingsley

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
~ Kahlil Gibran

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow."
~ The Talmud

Take nothing but pictures...
Leave nothing but footprints...
Kill nothing but time.

You never enjoy the world aright till the sea floweth in your veins, til you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.
~Thomas Traherne

The World is its own Magic.
~Shunryu Suzuki

Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.
~Rudyard Kipling

The golden crocus reaches up
To catch a sunbeam in her cup.
~ Walter Crane

And do not change.
Do not divert your love from visible things.
But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary;
Animals and things and flowers,
and keep the balance true.
~ Rilke

We are not our own. Earth forms us,
human leaves on nature's growing vine,
Fruit of many generations, seeds of life divine.
We are not alone. Earth names us:
past and present, peoples near and far,
family and friends and strangers show us who we are.
Therefore let us make thanksgiving,
and with justice, willing and aware,
give to earth, and all things living, legacies of care.
~Brian Wren

Did you know... that when you walk past a flower, whether it be in somebody's garden or on a vacant hillside, the flower will always smile at you. The most polite way to respond, I've been told, is to cheerfully return the smile.
~ Ron Atchison

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
~ William Blake

I'm glad the sky is painted blue,
And the earth is painted green,
With such a lot of nice fresh air
All sandwiched in between.

St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day. "I would finish hoeing my garden," he replied.
~ Louis Fischer

One SONG can spark a moment,
One FLOWER can wake the dream,
One TREE can start a forest,
One BIRD can herald spring,
One SMILE begins a friendship,
One HANDCLASP lifts a soul,
One STAR can guide a ship at sea,
One WORD can frame the goal,
One VOTE can change a nation,
One SUNBEAM lights a room,
One CANDLE wipes out darkness,
One LAUGH will conquer gloom,
One STEP must start each journey,
One WORD must start a prayer,
One HOPE will raise our spirits,
One TOUCH can show you care,
One VOICE can speak with wisdom,
One HEART can know what is true,
One LIFE can make a difference.
You see, it's up to you!

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower,
but only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief.
So dawn goes down today.
Nothing gold can stay.
~Robert Frost

I saw a bug
with twenty feet
Go crawling up
and down the street.
And wondered if
he stubbed ONE toe
If he would ever
really know.
~Aileen Fischer

All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small.
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.