When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
By nature's kindly disposition, most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.
When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal; when a man destroys one of the works of God, we call him a sportsman.
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.
If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling . . . every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator.
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.
If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.
Rivers and rocks and trees have always been talking to us, but we've forgotten how to listen.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.