Edward Abbey - Desert Solitaire "Cliffrose and Bayonets", p. 25 (1968)
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit
William Abby
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied — it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
Ansel Adams - Exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
Ansel Adams - Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle - Parts of Animals I.645a16
But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.
Aristotle - Generation of Animals I.715b15
. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.
John James Audubon - The Life and Adventures of John James Audubon, the Naturalist (1868)
Nature is the art of God - LA NATURA E L'ARTE DI DIO
Dante Alighieri
Nature is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished.
Sir Francis Bacon - Of Nature in Men
Art is man added to Nature.
Sir Francis Bacon Descriptio Globi Intellectus (1612)
I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children; who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children.
Wendell Berry - The Unforeseen Wilderness : An Essay on Kentucky's Red River Gorge (1971), p. 33 - Misattributed to James Audubon
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry - From the endorsement statement for The Dying of the Trees (1997) by Charles E. Little
We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare — warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
Wendell Berry - Commencement address at Lindsey Wilson College (14 May 2005)
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity ... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake (1757-1827) Letter to Revd Dr Trusler, 1799-08-23
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God.
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (sec. 16)
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
J.M. Barrie
Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.
Bernoulli
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity . . . and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland "The Certainty - April 5," Sundial of the Seasons (1964)
In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.
John Burroughs - The Light of Day
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral
John Burroughs
Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus - As quoted in Visions from Earth (2004) by James R. Miller, p. 126
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carlson
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life
Rachel Carlson
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carlson
. . . the more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race.
Rachel Carlson - Speech accepting the John Burroughs Medal (April 1952)
More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us.
George Washington Carver - How to Search for Truth, letter to Hubert W. Pelt (1930-02-24)
I love to think of nature as having unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour and every moment of our lives, if we will only tune in and remain so.
George Washington Carver - How to Search for Truth, letter to Hubert W. Pelt (1930-02-24)
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese Proverb
Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent enerty of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.
Thomas Cole - Essay in American Scenery
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie - Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 162
The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots in the past and is almost universal.
Rene J. Dubos, (1901-1982), The Wooing of the Earth, 1980.
The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of God seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man and his restless and unquiet spirit are not there to trouble its sanctity.
Tomas De Quincey, "Preliminary Confessions" (1821- 56)
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Thomas Edison
We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
Thomas Edison - Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh (1987) by James Newton, p. 31
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the dull mind nature is leaden; To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "History" 1841
Power is in nature the essential measure of right.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self Reliance
Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a lustre which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:286
To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty . . . it beholds every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Beauty
As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befal me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me my eyes) to which Nature will not offer a sweet consolation. Standing on the bare ground with my head bathed by the blithe air, & uplifted into the infinite space, I become happy in my universal relations. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign & accidental. I am the heir of uncontained beauty and power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks JMN 5:18-19
I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her wealth to man; she is immensely rich, he is welcome to her entire goods, which he speaks no word, only leaves over doors ajar, hall, store room, & cellar. He may do as he will: if he takes her hint & uses her goods, she speaks no word; if he blunders & starves, she says nothing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:253
When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature — when I think of that calm balancing of their energies which enables those most powerful in themselves, most destructive to the world's creatures and economy, to dwell associated together and be made subservient to the wants of creation, I rise from the contemplation more than ever impressed with the wisdom, the beneficence, and grandeur, beyond our language to express, of the Great Disposer of us all.
Michael Faraday - quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) p. 428
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Richard Feynman
If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.
Richard Feynman - Speaking of mathematics in The Character of Physical Law (1965) Ch. 2.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
Ann Frank - The Diary (12 June 1942 - 1 August 1944)
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Proverb
Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.
Gérard de Nerval
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
William Hazlitt "On Taste" (1859)
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor Hugo
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind longs to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), The Notch of the White Mountains, 1868.
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
William Hazlitt "On Taste" (1859)
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit.
You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.
Horace (65-8 BC), Epistles I.X.24
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor Hugo
God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
Dieu se manifeste à nous au premier degré à travers la vie de l’univers, et au deuxième degré à travers la pensée de l’homme. La deuxième manifestation n’est pas moins sacrée que la première. La première s’appelle la Nature, la deuxième s’appelle l’Art.
Victor Hugo - William Shakespeare (1864)Part I, Book II, Chapter I [5]
If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
President Lyndon B. Johnson
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. To me the pageant of seasons is a thrilling and unending drama, the action of which streams through my finger tips.
Hellen Keller - The American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic Monthly
The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970), Today and All Its Yesterdays, 1958.
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us.
Aldo Leopold, A Plea for Wilderness Hunting Grounds, Outdoor Life, November 1925. Reproduced in Aldo Leopold's Southwest, edited by David E. Brown & Neil B. Carmony, University of New Mexico Press, 1990, pg. 160-161.
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.
Aldo Leopold - A Sand County Almanac
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free.
Aldo Leopold - A Sand County Almanac
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia."
Charles A. Lindbergh, Life, 22 December 1967
Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) Founder, Success Magazine
The moment one give close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Henry Miller
Let us permit nature to have her way: she understands her business better than we do. Montaigne, Essays III
When one tugs at a single thing in nature; he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
Variant - When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.
Variant - Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.
John Muir - My First Summer in the Sierra (1911)
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
John Muir
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.
John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
John Muir - Our National Parks (1901)
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
John Muir - Travels in Alaska (1915)
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.
John Muir - The Yosemite (1912)
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature's sources never fail.
John Muir - Our National Parks (1901)
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.
John Muir
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world—the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
John Muir - Alaska Fragment (1890)
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
John Muir - "The National Parks and Forest Reservations", Sierra Club Bulletin Vol. 1, No. 7 (January 1896)
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
John Muir - Travels in Alaska (1915)
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Navajo Proverb
Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature.
Gérard de Nerval
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
ISAAC NEWTON
The forest is the poor man's overcoat.
New England Proverb
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keffe
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not. .
Georgia O'Keffe
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -- over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
Mary Oliver
Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.
Blaze Pascal - Pensées (1669) Section II, 72. The quote in bold is attributed to Empedocles. Pascal is said to have read it in Mlle de Gournay's preface to her edition of Montaigne's Essais. See note here.
For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
Blaze Pascal - Pensées (1669) Section X - 674
We might almost accuse nature of falsehood. One sees himself behind a mirror when nothing is there. A straight pole leaning in a pool is bent to appearance. The sun seems to rise and set, but moves not at all. We see it before it rises and after it sets. These and numberless other cases might be adduced to prove the deceitfulness of nature. Nay, they prove rather that education is the law of our being, and that here, as elsewhere, he who would not be self-deceived, must study nature's laws, must become educated.
D.J. Pratt reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) p 482.
Choose only one master — Nature.
Rembrandt - Rembrandt Drawings (1975) by Paul Némo, as translated by David Macrae
Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.
Rembrandt - Rembrandt Drawings (1975) by Paul Némo, as translated by David Macrae
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Emile, 1762
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Seneca, Letters to Lucilius
Nature is not a place to visit, it is home
Gary Snyder
I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.
Gary Snyder - Statement for the Paterson Society" (1961), as quoted in David Kherdian, Six Poets of the San Francisco Renaissance: Portraits and Checklists (1967), p. 52
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare - Troilus and Cressida, Act III, Scene iii
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau - speech at Concord Lyceum, 23 April 1851 and subsequently, in Thoreau's essay "Walking", Atlantic Monthly, June 1862 (v.9 no. 56)
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
Mark Twain - Mark Twain's Notebook, 1935
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci
"Trees give peace to the souls of men."
Nora Waln correspondent 1895-1964
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
H.G. Wells - A Short History of the World (1922)
To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause within our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace.
Terry Tempest Williams
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.
Terry Tempest Williams, testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Forest & Public Lands Management regarding the Utah Public Lands Management Act of 1995. Washington, D.C. July 13, 1995.
Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.
Terry Tempest Williams -https://sites.google.com/site/thoreauandwilderness/American-Nature-Writing/terry-tempest-williams
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass 31
Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
William Wordsworth
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