Edward Young

"Read nature; nature is a friend to truth." - Edward Young

Thomas Hood

"I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence." - Thomas Hood

Gustave Flaubert

"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings." - Gustave Flaubert

John Donne

"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face." - John Donne

Benjamin Disraeli

"Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness." - Benjamin Disraeli

William Allingham

"Autumn's the mellow time." - William Allingham

Bodhidharma

"Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature." - Bodhidharma

Alan Hovhaness

"I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God." - Alan Hovhaness

Hosea Ballou

"Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature." - Hosea Ballou

Georg Trakl

"I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods." - Georg Trakl

Ellsworth Huntington

"America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton." - Ellsworth Huntington

Claude Monet

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." - Claude Monet

Frank Lloyd Wright

"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." - Frank Lloyd Wright

Francis Bacon

"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished." - Francis Bacon

September '14

September '14 -

Joseph Joubert

"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees." - Joseph Joubert

Henry Ward Beecher

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy." - Henry Ward Beecher

Zora Neale Hurston

"The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor." - Zora Neale Hurston

Aristotle

"Nature does nothing in vain." - Aristotle

W. H. Auden

"'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'" - W. H. Auden

Plautus

"The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money." - Plautus

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature." - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Alfred Lord Tennyson

"And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men." - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Isaac Bashevis Singer

"What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it." - Isaac Bashevis Singer

Archibald Alexander

"Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it." - Archibald Alexander

Charles Baudelaire

"Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest." - Charles Baudelaire

Nicolaus Copernicus

"Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars." - Nicolaus Copernicus

Ken Kesey

"There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy." - Ken Kesey