Inspirational Nature Quotes

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Shirley MacLaine 1934
American actress, dancer & author
Crystals are amplifying minerals. You have a crystal in a radio – it amplifies the sound waves. You have a crystal in a television set – it amplifies the light waves. When you hold crystals, they amplify thought waves.

Dorothy Maclean 1920-2020
Canadian author & co-founder of Findhorn
When a smile touches our hearts. When the forest stills us to peace. When music moves us to rapture. When we really love, laugh or dance with joy. We are at one with the angels.

Pat Fleming & Joanna Macy
Wildflower speaks - I offer you my fragrance and sweet face to call you back to life’s beauty. Take time to notice me and I’ll let you fall in love again with life. This is my gift.

Og Mandino 1923-1996
American author & salesman
Always do your best.
What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Steve Maraboli 1975
American author & speaker
Don’t give up. It’s not over. The Universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back.

I will be generous with my love today. I will sprinkle compliments and uplifting words everywhere I go. I will do this knowing that my words are like seeds and when they fall on fertile soil a reflection of those seeds will grow into something greater.

Bob Marley 1945-1981
Jamaican singer-songwriter & guitarist
Some people FEEL the rain.. Others just get wet.

Matthew-Suzanne Ward
Channeller & author
Knowing that you and God and every other of God’s creations are inseparable is love. Knowing that Earth is a sentient, conscious life herself and respecting all of her life forms is love. Realizing that no one can know others at Soul level and therefore does not judge them, but rather does not condone an action seen as injurious, is love.

Listening to one’s Godself is love.
Living the kind of life that engenders loving self is love.
Feeling joy yourself when you see it in others is love.
Doing something that brings joy to another is love.
Forgiveness of self and others is love.
Sharing your resources with full heart is love.
Doing good deeds without attaching expectations is love.
Feeling peace of heart and mind is love.

The quiet thrill of seeing a sunset or hearing a songbird is love,
and a smile is one of the simplest and most radiating expressions of love.

Marysia Miernowska
Teacher of herbalism & author
We breathe air exhaled from trees whose leaves are made of starlight… Our veins echo the patterns of rivers, branches, and root systems. We are not a part of nature. We are Nature.

Bradley Millar
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.

Karen Maezen Miller 1956
Zen Buddhist priest & meditation teacher
The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

A. A. Milne 1882-1956
English writer & poet
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

Ho Chi Minh 1890-1969
Vietnamese president of North Vietnam
Remember the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Helen Mirren 1945
English actress
Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That’s the fun of it. You’re always learning.

Claude Monet 1840-1926
French artist
It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water.

The richness I achieve comes from nature.. The source of my inspiration.

Maria Montessori 1870-1952
Italian physician & educator
In nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.

When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.

Thomas Moore
Earth is not a platform for human life. It’s a living being. We’re not on it, but part of it. It’s health is our health.

John Morton
Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true Soul self is constantly radiating.

Debasish Mridha
American physician, philosopher & author
A baby is as pure as an angel and as fresh as a blooming flower.

In the garden of humanity, every baby is a fresh new flower.

Movie – Mulan (1998)
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

John Muir 1838-1914
Scottish-American naturalist & author
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.

I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get into the mountains to learn the news.

Prentice Mulford 1834-1891
American author
Love is an element which though physically unseen is as real as air or water. It is an acting, living, moving force.. It moves in waves and currents like those of the ocean.

Robert Muller 1923-2010
Belgian author & assistant secretary-general of United Nations
Be a good gardener of your life.. Have a green, colourful life thumb.

I will shout to the stars and work until my last breath: let us make a paradise of this beautiful planet.

I wish the world would cover itself again with fruit trees for the happiness of little children. Every child on Earth should have the pleasure of touching and picking live fruits from a tree.

Love the road of your life. There is so much beauty to see, so much music to hear, so many flowers to smell, so many thoughts to be thought, so much love to be had, so much Divinity to be felt.

Robert Muller 1923-2010
Belgian author & assistant secretary-general of United Nations
Our lives resemble those of trees: heavy winds and tempests make us stronger and dig our roots deeper. We must gain strength from every gust of adversity.

Spirituality is a flower with a thousand petals: every act, every thought, every talk, every movement of our heart is a part of it.

Robert Muller 1923-2010
Belgian author & assistant secretary-general of United Nations
The beauty and purity of this planet requires your own beauty and purity of body, mind, heart and Soul.

There is often a great strength in stillness: a fallow land recuperates its energy.

Use the freest goods for happiness.. The stars cost nothing. Nature costs nothing. Your inner life costs nothing. God costs nothing. And yet they are all infinitely precious.

We are all co-responsible for this planet.

We are all passengers on the same planet sailing towards eternity on the vast ocean of the Universe.

Robert Muller 1923-2010
Belgian author & assistant secretary-general of United Nations
We must walk with utmost care on our beautiful planet, the result of such a long, miraculous, cosmic journey. We must love this marvellous jewel in the Universe with all our mind, heart and Soul and make it a Paradise.

Who loves a garden his Eden keeps. May we all love our planet like a garden and be good gardeners of God, helping to create Paradise Earth.

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Guru Nanak 1469-1539
Indian spiritual leader & founder of Sikhism
As fragrance abides in the flower, as the reflection is within the mirror, so doth thy Lord abide within thee. Why search for Him without?

Native American
Be gentle as the spring rain.

Be kind to everything that lives.

Native American

Honor the Sacred.
Honor the Earth, our Mother.
Honor all with whom we share the Earth.
Walk in balance and beauty.

Native American
Live strong as the mountains.

May the stars carry your sadness away.
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty.
May hope forever wipe away your tears.
And above all, may silence make you strong.

May your life be like a wild flower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.

The Soul would have no rainbow, if the eye had no tears.

Treat the Earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors
We borrow it from our children.

Native American
Walk tall as the trees.

Native American
We sang songs that carried in their melodies all the sounds of nature.

Native American – Arapaho
All plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them.

When we show respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us.

Native American – Cherokee

May the warm winds of heaven blow softly upon your house.
May the Great Spirit bless all who enter there.
May your moccasins make happy tracks in many snows,
and may the rainbow always touch your shoulder.

Native American – Chinnok
Teach us, and show us the Way.

We call upon the earth, our planet home, with its beautiful depths and soaring heights, its vitality and abundance of life, and together we ask that it… Teach us, and show us the Way.

We call upon the mountains, the Cascades and the Olympics, the high green valleys and meadows filled with wild flowers, the snows that never melt, the summits of intense silence, and we ask that they… Teach us, and show us the Way.

We call upon the waters that rim the earth, horizon to horizon, that flow in our rivers and streams, that fall upon our gardens and fields and we ask that they… Teach us, and show us the Way.

We call upon the land which grows our food, the nurturing soil, the fertile fields, the abundant gardens and orchards, and we ask that they… Teach us, and show us the Way.

We call upon the forests, the great trees reaching strongly to the sky and the earth in their roots and the heavens in their branches, the fir and the pine and the cedar, and we ask them to… Teach us, and show us the Way.

We call upon the creatures of the fields and forests and the seas, our brothers and sisters the wolves and deer, the eagle and dove, the great whales and dolphin, the beautiful Orca and salmon who share our Northwest home, and we ask them to… Teach us, and show us the Way.

We call upon all those who have lived on this earth, our ancestors and our friends, who dreamed the best for our future generations, and upon whose lives our lives our built, and with thanksgiving, we call upon them to… Teach us, and show us the Way.

And lastly, we call upon all that we hold most sacred, the presence and power of the Great Spirit of love and truth which flows through all the Universe, to be with us to… Teach us, and show us the Way.

Native American – Como
I love the land on which I was born, the trees which cover it, and the grass growing on it. It feeds us well.

Native American – Hopi
The rainbow is a sign from Him who is in all things.

Native American – Iroquois
We return thanks to our Mother, the Earth, which sustains us.
We return thanks to the rivers and streams, which supply us with water.
We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines for the cure of our diseases.
We return thanks to the moon and stars, which have given us their light when the sun was gone. We return thanks to the sun, that has looked upon the Earth with a beneficent eye.

Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit, in whom is embodied all goodness, and who directs all things for the good of her children.

Native American – Kiowa
Walk gently in the spring.. Mother Earth is pregnant.

Native American – Ute

Earth teach me quiet…
as the grasses are still with new light.

Earth teach me suffering…
as old stones suffer with memory.

Earth teach me humility…
as blossoms are humble with beginning.

Earth teach me caring…
as mothers nurture their young.

Earth teach me courage…
as the tree that stands alone.

Earth teach me limitation…
as the ant that crawls on the ground

Earth teach me freedom…
as the eagle that soars in the sky

Earth teach me acceptance…
as the leaves that die each fall

Earth teach me renewal…
as the seed that rises in the spring

Earth teach me to forget myself…
as melted snow forgets its life

Earth teach me to remember kindness…
as dry fields weep with rain

Mark Nepo 1951
American poet, philosopher & author
The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Pablo Neruda 1904-1973
Chilean poet-diplomat & politician

I want you to live while I wait for you, asleep.
I want your ears still to hear the wind,
I want you to sniff the sea’s aroma that we loved together,
To continue to walk on the sand we walk on.

I want what I love to continue to live,
And you whom I love and sang above everything else
To continue to flourish, full-flowered;

from poem: When I Die, I Want Your Hands On My Eyes

Pablo Neruda 1904-1973
Chilean poet-diplomat & politician
You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.

Isaac Newton 1643-1727
English physicist, mathematician & polymath
What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.

Nikinapi  ?-c1750
Native American Chief of Illiniwek tribe
Never has the Earth been so lovely nor the sun so bright, as today.

David Nova
Hawaiian video editor, author & poet

Consider a Tree

The Symbol of Life
One living totality of consciousness
The Oneness of being to which we all belong
Always connected, never separate or apart
The trunk as our Creator, the Source of all Life
The divine dividing branches, our soul family, our connection to source
Each individual twig, a unique soul, our higher selves
The roots below ground, invisible helpers, our guides on the other side
A vital support system providing nourishment and growth
And the leaves that bloom each spring, our human incarnations
Fragile and green, beautiful to behold, but short lived
That shed every autumn, only to be reborn anew every spring
Yet it is our destiny, our mission, our greatest purpose
As collective branches on the Tree of Life
To evolve, to be transformed, and Ascend
To become… Evergreen
Shining with an inner light

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Cynthia Occelli
Author, life coach & speaker
For a seed to achieve its greatest expression it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. to someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.

Ohiyesa aka Charles Alexander Eastman 1858-1939
Native American of Santee Dakota tribe
Whenever, in the course of the daily hunt, the hunter comes upon a scene that is strikingly beautiful, or sublime - a black thundercloud with the rainbow’s glowing arch above the mountain, a white waterfall in the heart of a green gorge, a vast prairie tinged with the blood-red of the sunset - he pauses for an instant in the attitude of worship.

Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986
American artist
Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small it takes time, and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for that moment.

Okute (aka Shooter)
Native American of Teton Lakota tribe
All living creatures and all plants derive their life from the sun. if it were not for the sun, there would be darkness and nothing would grow - the earth would be without life.

Yet the sun must have the help of the earth. If the sun alone were to act upon animals and plants, the heat would be so great and they would die, but there are clouds that bring rain, and the action of the sun and earth together supplies the moisture that is needed for life.

The roots of a plant go down, and the deeper they go the more moisture they find. This is according to the laws of nature and is one of the evidences of the wisdom of Wakan Tanka.

From my boyhood I have observed leaves, trees, and grass, and I have never found two alike. They may have a general likeness, but on examination I have found that they differ slightly. It is the same with animals… it is the same with human beings, there is some place which is best adapted to each…

Mary Oliver 1935-2019
American poet & author
Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine.. And then keep on going.

Snow was falling, so much like stars
Filling the dark trees
That one could easily imagine
Its reason for being was nothing more
Than prettiness.

Ovid 43BC-17AD
Roman poet
Take rest.. A field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

Grey Owl (aka Archibald Belaney) 1888-1938
English writer, speaker & conservationist
Remember, you belong to nature, not it to you.

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Dolly Parton 1946
American singer-songwriter, actress & philanthropist
Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Peace Whisperer
Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds, you can grow flowers, or you can grow weeds.

George Peele 1556-1596
English poet & dramatist

Creatres, as numerous as they be
Are subject to His care.
There’s not a place where we can flee
But God is present there.

Lord how Thy wonders are displayed
Where’er I turn mine eye
If I survey the ground I tread
Or gaze upon the sky

Anna Pereira
Author
Don’t invite people to your garden who trample on your flowers.

It only takes one seed to be the mother to hundreds of flowers. Sow seeds of Love, Kindness, Joy and Gratitude for a heart full of blooms that never wither.

Petalesharo c1797-c1836
Native American Chief of Pawnee tribe
This brings rest to my heart, I feel like a leaf after a storm, when the wind is still.

Wilbur Pierce
Nature - trees, flowers, grass - grow in silence.
We need silence to be able to touch Souls.

Sylvia Plath 1932-1963
American author & poet
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery.. Air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, this is what it is to be happy.

Plato 429BC-347BC
Ancient Greek philosopher
This world is indeed a living being endowed with a Soul and intelligence.. A single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

Elvis Presley 1935-1977
American singer & actor
Truth is like the sun.. you can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.

Proverb
If and When were planted and nothing grew.

They tried to bury us.. They didn’t know we were seeds.

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Adabella Radici
I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine. She helps me grow, prosper and reach great heights.

Josh Radnor 1974
American actor, filmmaker & musician
We’re like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

Osho Rajneesh 1931-1990
Indian philosopher & guru
If you love a flower, don’t pick it up because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So, if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession, love is about appreciation.

If you start listening to the body, listening to nature, listening to your inner being, you will be more and more happy. Become a good Listener to nature.

Love yourself. You are needed as much as the trees, as the flowers, as the birds, as the sun, as the moon, as the stars. You have to be here and you have a right to be the way you are.

Amit Ray 1960
Indian spiritual teacher & author
A bird is safe in its nest… but that is not what its wings are made for.

Be like a lotus. Let the beauty of your heart speak. Be grateful for the mud, water, air and the light.

Rainbows are made of small raindrops. Happy lives are made from acts of kindness.

The Universe is the creation of the mind. It exists inside the mind as the flower exists inside the seed.

Helen Steiner Rice 1900-1981
American Christian & inspirational poet
Like roses in a garden kindness fills the air, with a certain bit of sweetness as it touches everywhere.

David Richo 1940
Psychotherapist & author
We do not live on the Earth, we are a part of how the Earth lives.

Dianne Robbins 1939
Channeller & author
The purpose of trees is to express love in merely Being.

Dianne Robbins 1939
Channeller & author
The Trees Message To Humanity: know that our love for humanity is deep and profound for you are the Caretakers of the Earth and this is your domain. This is your world to love and to cherish. We only remind you of the great responsibility you have, so that you can fulfill it.

Nora Roberts 1950
American author
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.

Carl Rogers 1902-1987
American psychologist
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a bit on the right had corner,” I don’t try to control a sunset, I watch with awe as it unfolds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945
American 32nd president of United States
Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to the people.

John Ross  1790-1866
Native American Chief of Cherokee tribe
We, the great mass of the people, think only of the love we have for our land, for we do love the land where we were brought up.

Christina Rossetti 1830-1894
English poet
One day in the country is worth a month in town.

The Rainbow

Boats sail on the rivers,
And ships sail on the seas;
But clouds that sail across the sky
Are prettier far than these.

There are bridges on the rivers,
As pretty as you please;
But the bow that bridges heaven,
And overtops the trees,
And builds a road from Earth to sky,
Is prettier far than these.

Where innocent bright-eyes daises are
With blades of grass between
Each daisy stands up like a star
Out of a sky of green

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778
Swiss-French philosopher
Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity.

Put the problems before him and let him solve then himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself.

Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people’s thoughts.

Rumi 1207-1273
Afghan Sufi mystic & poet
Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

If you find a trusted friend, tell him the secrets of your Soul. If you see a rose, sing from your heart, like a nightingale.

If you want the moon, do not hide at night. If you want a rose, do not run from the thorns. If you want love, do not hide from yourself.

In the garden.. I see only your face - from trees and blossoms. I inhale only your fragrance.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

Let yourself be loved, O Beloved, in the One. And from this One move out into the world, carrying within you the great potent energies of life to green your world, to create planets, suns, stars, stones, waves, oceans, to create new forms of life and expression - whether friendship, a feeling or a new form of vocation.

Love is a river.. Drink from it.

Rumi 1207-1273
Afghan Sufi mystic & poet
Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots.

Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

Rumi 1207-1273
Afghan Sufi mystic & poet
Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the moon. That moon is your heart and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.

John Ruskin 1819-1900
English writer, philosopher & polymath
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty, if only we have the eyes to see them.

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Radha Sahar
Musical artist
The whole of planet Earth is a sacred site. All people are the chosen people, and the purpose of our lives is a spiritual one. May we care for each other, and for the Earth, for everything relates to everything else.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900-1944
French writer, poet & journalist
I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

People where they live, grow five thousand roses in one garden.. Yet they don’t find what they’re looking for.. And yet, what they’re looking for could be found in a single rose.

SaLuSa-Mike Quinsey
Channeller & author
Sow the seeds of truth and one day they will grow and become the flowers of understanding.

George Santayana 1863-1952
Spanish-American philosopher, novelist & poet
The Earth has music for those who listen.

E. F. Schumacher 1911-1977
German-British statistician & economist
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something much better; that we can become oak trees.

Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965
French theologian, philosopher & humanitarian
In the hopes of reaching the moon, men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Seattle 1780-1866
Native American Chief of Duwamish & Suquamish tribes
All things share the same breath; the beast, the tree, the man. The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

Seattle 1780-1866
Native American Chief of Duwamish & Suquamish tribes
Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people.

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of this Earth is sacred to my people.

We are part of the Earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected.

William Shakespeare 1564-1616
English playwright, poet & actor
One touch of nature, makes the whole world kin.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 1956
Indian guru & spiritual leader
Do not look for God somewhere in the sky, but see God in every pair of eyes, in the mountains, in water, in trees and in animals.

Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822
English writer & poet

And spring arose on the garden fair
Like the spirit of love felt everywhere
And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast
Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822
English writer & poet

Music, when soft voices die
Vibrates in the memory
Odours, when sweet violets sicken
Live within the sense they quicken

The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean
The winds of heaven mix forever
With a sweet emotion
Nothing in the world is single
All things by a law Divine
In one spirit meet and mingle
Why not I with thine?

Leon Shenandoah 1915-1996
Native American Chief of Onondaga tribe
Every human being has a sacred duty to protect the welfare of our Mother Earth, from whom all life comes. In order to do this we must recognize the enemy.. the one within us. We must begin with ourselves.

We are the spiritual energy that is thousands of times stronger than nuclear energy. Our energy in the combines will of all people with the spirit of the Natural World, to be of one body, one heart and one mind for peace.

We must live in harmony with the Natural World.

Angelus Silesius 1624-1677
German Catholic priest, physician & poet
The rose that with your earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.

Sitting Bull  1831-1890
Native American chief of Dakota Sioux tribe
The Earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.

Samuel Smiles 1812-1904
Scottish author & government reformer
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Socrates 470BC-399BC
Greek philosopher
He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.

Ian Somerhalder 1978
American actor & director
Whether that expansion is towards the beings around you or flora, fauna and creatures, love has so many unique yet consistent forms. People like Branson – he’s an idea guru. Guys like Allan Savory – he’s like Father Earth. Allan has literally discovered how to stop desertification and make Africa come alive with plant life. In each of its forms, love has an infinite scope of potential expansion, all of which I see leading to growth.

Nicholas Sparks 1965
American novelist & screenwriter
And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

Love is like the wind.. You can’t see it but you can feel it.

Rudolf Steiner 1861-1925
Austrian scientist, philosopher & social reformer
For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.

Ray Stevens 1939
American singer-songwriter & comedian

Everything is beautiful in it’s own way.
Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter’s day.
And everybody’s beautiful in their own way.
Under God’s Heaven, the world’s gonna find the way.

There is none so blind as he who will not see.
We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts be free.
For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older,
it’s time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894
Scottish novelist & essayist
To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

Joseph B. Strauss 1870-1938
American chief engineer of Golden Gate Bridge

The Redwoods

Here, sown by the Creator’s hand
In serried ranks, the Redwoods stand
No other clime is honoured so
No other lands their glory know

The greatest of Earth’s living forms
Tall conquerors that laugh at storms
Their challenge still unanswered rings
Through fifty centuries of kings

The nations that with them were young
Rich empires, with their forts far-flung
Lie buried now - their splendor gone
But these proud monarchs still live on

So shall they live, when ends our day
When our crude citadels decay
For brief the years allotted man
But infinite perennials’ span

This is their temple, vaulted high
And here we pause with reverent eye
With silent tongue and awe-struck Soul
For here we sense life’s proper goal

To be like these, straight, true and fine
To make our world, like theirs, a shrine
Sink down, oh, traveller, on your knees
God stands before you in these trees

Alfred Billings Street 1811-1881
American writer & poet
Nature is our teacher. She unfolds her treasures to our search, unseals our eyes, illumes our minds, and purifies our hearts; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.

Patience Strong (Winifred Emma May) 1907-1990
English poet

Autumn’s Parable

Learn the Autumn parable
Release the dying leaf
letting go of old grievances,
dead dreams and outworn grief
casting off: preparing to
recreate yourself anew.

God Loves A Garden

God chose a garden in which to
breathe His spirit into man -
And ever since we make our
little Edens where we can…

We plant and sow and gather
fruit and flowers of every kind -
As if that old lost paradise
our hearts desired to find.

In a garden you can find quiet thoughts that calm the mind.

Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow. Weed or wheat.. This is the law. We reap the crop we sow.

Patience Strong (Winifred Emma May) 1907-1990
English poet

Nature’s Chemistry

Autumn mists enshroud the lane -
as the old leaves fall again -
every leaf is like a tear -
falling for the fading year…

But Mother Earth no tear will shed -
She knows her children are not dead.
Each dying leaf she will transmute -
to feed the ever-hungry root -
and with her own wise chemistry -
prepare the Spring that is to be...

One Day Nearer Spring

Long the Winter road may seem
and hard the way ahead.
Bleak the bitter skies
but as the weary miles you tread -
you face the promise of the glories
that the year will bring.
Every dark and dreary day
is one day nearer to Spring.

Remember

You can’t expect fine weather
and good fortune all the way -
roses round the easy paths and
sunshine every day…

You’d soon grow bored with that,
so when some trouble dims the light -
do not dwell on what went wrong.
Remember what went right.

Sunshine And Shadow

Life is a mixture of
sunshine and shadow
But you will find there is
more joy than pain

Clouds veil the brightness
but only in passing
Storms roll away and the
heart sings again

Hold to your faith.
Never waver or doubt
And sooner or later
the sun will come out.

The Promise

The trees are hung with frosted tinsel
every sprig and spray
Glitter with the glint and sparkle
of the wintry day

Berries on the holly bough -
and robins on the wing
And underneath it all -
the hidden promise of the Spring.

David Suzuki 1936
Canadian science broadcaster & environmental activist
Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can’t expect them to help protect and care for it.

Annamalai Swami 1906-1995
Disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi
Just remain like the sky and let thought-clouds come and go.

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Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941
Indian poet, writer, composer & philosopher
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he or she will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

The same stream of life that runs through the world, runs through my veins night and day, and dances in rhythmic measure. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the Earth into numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

Trees are the Earths endless effort to speak to the listening Heaven.

Talmud
Jewish scriptures book
He who has more learning than goodness is like a tree with many branches and few roots, which the first wind throws down; whilst he whose works are greater than his knowledge is like a tree with many roots and fewer branches, which all the winds of heaven cannot uproot.

Tae Te Ching
Chinese classic text of Taoism
Surrender yourself humbly - then you can be trusted to care for your things. Love the world as your own self - then you can truly care for all things.

The Universe is sacred. You cannot improve it, if you try to change it, you will ruin it. If you try to hold it, you will lose it.

Anna Taylor
Be as a flower. For she does not question or hinder her needs. She just allows. Neither does she hide or underestimate her natural beauty. She is just as she is in all her imperfect perfection.

We all have times when life feels hard; when we’re frustrated and tired and just want to hide away. If that’s you right now, don’t worry - every caterpillar has to rest to become a butterfly and you’ll soon find your wings again.

Micheal Teal
Poet, psychic & writer
I am a Spiritual gardener sowing seeds of positive transformation.

I walk a rainbow trail where I embrace the world with love.

Tecumseh 1768-1813
Native American Chief of Shawnee tribe
Although ice and snow may lie deep upon my wigwam, I should find a warm fire within.

Mother Teresa 1910-1997
Albanian-Indian Catholic nun
How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.

We need to find God, and He cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence. See the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch Souls.

St Teresa of Avila 1515-1582
Spanish Carmelite nun
If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts.

Just as the sun shines on all the trees and flowers as if each were the only one on Earth, so does God care for all Souls in a special manner.

The good God does not need years to accomplish His work of love in a Soul; one ray from His Heart can, in an instant, make His flower bloom for eternity.

The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent, nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

John & Lyn St Clair Thomas
There is much to use of nature’s way. It is with you always, available to you always. Take time to hear and see that which is close to hand. There are forces in you untried. They are yours to be used as you find them.

Lewis Thomas 1913-1993
American physician, poet & essayist
We are educated to be amazed by the infinite of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.

Archibald Thompson
There is no velvet so soft as a mother’s lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps.

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862
American naturalist, essayist & poet
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.

We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty. We loiter in winter while it is already spring.

A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors.

An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862
American naturalist, essayist & poet
As long as I have the friendship of the seasons, life will never be a burden to me.

Every blade in the field, every leaf in the forest, lays down its life in its season, as beautifully as it was taken up.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

I believe there is a subtle magnetism in nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

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.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the Earth.

Man emulates Earth
Earth emulates Heaven
Heaven emulates the Way
The Way emulates Nature

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862
American naturalist, essayist & poet
Nature is full of genius, full of divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862
American naturalist, essayist & poet
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.

There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more - a man sees only what concerns him.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

We need the tonic of wildness.. At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.

Eckhart Tolle 1948
German teacher & author
If your mind is still.. You can sense the peace that emanates from the Earth.

Eckhart Tolle 1948
German teacher & author
When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something within you responds deeply to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the essence of that love or that beauty within you, inseparable from who you are, your true nature.

Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910
Russian writer
Rest, nature, books, music, such is my idea of happiness.

Thomas Treherne 1636-1674
English poet, writer & Anglican cleric
Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious.

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There is a magic machine that sucks carbon out of the air, costs very little, and builds itself… it’s called a tree.

Lao Tzu 600BC
Ancient Chinese philosopher
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong, nothing can surpass it.

Nature does not hurry.. Yet everything is accomplished.

Lao Tzu 600BC
Ancient Chinese philosopher
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

To see things in the seed.. That is genius.

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and Earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out.

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Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519
Italian artist, scientist & inventor
In her (nature’s) inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

Doreen Virtue 1958
American author
Fairies are angels who reside very close to the Earth so that they can perform their Divine mission of protecting nature and animals.

To connect with the fairies.. Go outdoors.

Voltaire 1694-1778
French writer, philosopher & historian
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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Alice Walker 1944
American novelist, writer & social activist
I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

Alice Walker 1944
American novelist, writer & social activist
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

Neale Donald Walsch 1943
American author & channeller
You are not the flower, nor are you the fruit. You are the tree and your roots are deep, embedded in God.

J. Donald Walters 1926-2013
American Hindu religious leader & author
In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

William Arthur Ward 1921-1994
American motivational writer & poet
Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed, and a giant oak in an acorn.

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The realist adjusts the sails.

Anna Laetitia Waring 1923-1910
Welsh poet & hymn writer

Green pastures are before me
Which yet I have not seen
Bright skies will soon be o’er me
Where the dark clouds have been

My hope I cannot measure
My path to life is free
My Saviour has my treasure
And He will walk with me

Rick Warren 1954
American Evangelical Baptist pastor & author
God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds with time and pressure. He’s working on you too.

Alan Watts 1915-1973
English writer, philosopher & lecturer
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical Universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Alan Watts 1915-1973
English writer, philosopher & lecturer
You will begin to realise that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole Universe.

Isaac Watts 1674-1748
English minister & prolific hymnwriter
Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.

Let me be dressed fine as I will.. Flies, worms, and flowers, exceed me still.

Thou sun, whose beams adorn the spheres, and with unwearied swiftness move to form the circles of our years.

White Eagle 1840-1914
Native American Chief of Ponca tribe
When you are in doubt, be still and wait. When doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage. So long as mists envelop you, be still; Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists - as it surely will - then act with courage.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1850-1919
American author & poet
A weed is but an unloved flower.

Life is a garden forever in flower.

Stuart Wilde 1946-2013
British author & lecturer
Watch nature, because it is your greatest teacher. It moves and flows and moves on again. There is an incredible beauty out there in the mountains, in the forests, to teach you its silence, its beauty, its humility. Stay aligned to that.

Anthony Douglas Williams 1953
Canadian spiritualist, writer & author
A walk with Mother Nature blossoms one’s Soul.

Like the sun, we are attracted to people who shine with warmth and brightness.

Anthony Douglas Williams 1953
Canadian spiritualist, writer & author
Lost Souls fight nature.. Spiritual Souls embrace nature.

Our purpose is simple.. To love. To love each other, to love all life and to love our Earth.

Re-energize your Soul.. Walk with Mother Nature.

Anthony Douglas Williams 1953
Canadian spiritualist, writer & author
The majesty of creation forms my faith in the Creator.

Anthony Douglas Williams 1953
Canadian spiritualist, writer & author
The more time we spend with Mother Nature the more we fall in love with her.

There are places on Earth where we can catch a glimpse of Heaven.

Rachel Wolchin
Author
Bury your past, let flowers grow where they lay.

Wooden Leg 1858-1940
Native American of Cheyenne tribe
The old Indian teaching was that it is wrong to tear loose from its place on the Earth anything that may be growing there. It may be cut off, but it should not be uprooted.

The trees and the grass have spirits. Whenever one of such growth may be destroyed by some good Indian, his act is done in sadness and with a prayer for forgiveness because of his necessities.

William Wordsworth 1770-1850
English poet

There was a time when meadow, grove and stream
The Earth, and every common sight
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light
The glory and the freshness of a dream

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Paramahansa Yogananda 1893-1952
Indian-American Hindu monk & guru
Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Yuan-Sou
The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

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