It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Nature
Part of water which is cooler always flows to below surface.
I understand that hotheaded men always want to be noticed.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut”"
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?
-John Steinbeck
"Travels with Charley: In Search of America"
To cultivate a garden is…to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.
-Christian Bovee "Christian Bovee"
Garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
-Gertrude Jekyll "Gertrude Jekyll"
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.
-James Dent
I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
-Pete Hamill
Just as rivers flow from east and west to merge with the one sea, forgetting that they were ever separate rivers, so all beings lose their separateness when they eventually merge into pure Being.
- Upanishads "Chandogya Upanishad"
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
-Michael Pollan
We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.
-Richard Black
