•“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.” 
― John Marsden

•“I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.” 
― Emma Goldman

•“Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.” 
― Mahatma Gandhi 

•“The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.” 
― Henry Miller

•“Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.” 
― Gretel Ehrlich

•“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.” 
― William Shakespeare 

•“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“If people think nature is their friend then they sure don't need an enemy.” 
― Kurt Vonnegut

•“I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.” 
― William Golding

•“Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer” 
― John Keats

•“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.” 
― Steve Maraboli

•“You can predict anything in this world but not the nature's behaviour” 
― Ningraj

•“We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.” 
― Richard Black

•“God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through Life with our eyes shut.” 
― Alexander Graham Bell

•“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” 
― Albert Camus 

•“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.” 
― Michael Pollan

•“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” 
― Robert Green Ingersoll 

•“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.” 
― Andy Warhol

•“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude.” 
―Emily Dickinson 

•“My roses are my jewels, the sun and moon my clocks, fruit and water my food and drink.” 
― Hester Lucy Stanhope

•“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.” 
― William Hazlitt 

•“The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.” 
― Thomas Hobbes

•“I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.” 
― Gustave Flaubert 

•“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” 
― Henri Matisse 

•“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” 
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

•“Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding” 
― Jacob Bronowski

•“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.” 
― Jane Austen

•“At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned” 
― Cormac McCarthy

•“That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.” 
― Marcus Aurelius 

•“Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.” 
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

•“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” 
― Anais Nin 

•“Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.” 
― Francis Bacon

•“Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window” 
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

•“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” 
― Moliere 

•“Only the brave know how to forgive a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.” 
― Laurence Sterne 

•“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” 
― Helen Keller 

•“We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.” 
― Kurt Cobain

•“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.” 
― Anne Lamott

•“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.” 
― Victor Hugo 

•“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” 
― Walt Whitman

•“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.” 
― R. Buckminster Fuller 

•“I will follow my instincts, and be myself for good or ill.” 
― John Muir

•“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” 
― Anthony J. D'Angelo 

•“If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.” 
― Jane Goodall

•“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.” 
― Pedro Calderon de la Barca 

•“I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.”
― Björk

•“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.” 
― Robert Green Ingersoll   

•“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” 
― Ingrid Bergman

•“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” 
― Samuel Butler

•“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.” 
― Voltaire   

•“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.” 
― George Carlin

•“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy” 
― Isaac Newton

•“The earth has music for those who listen.” 
― George Santayana