"Nature is not matter only. She is also spirit."

Carl Gustav Jung

"Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond."

Robin Wall Kimmerer

"To walk into nature is to witness a thousand miracles."

Mary Davis

"Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion."

Lorraine Anderson

"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty."

John Ruskin

"The Earth is a fine place and worth fighting for."

Ernest Hemingway

"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air and resign yourself to the influence of the earth."

Henry David Thoreau

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."

Aristotle

"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’"

Sylvia Plath

"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home."

Gary Snyder

"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night—these are some of the rewards of the simple life."

John Burroughs

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

Lao Tzu