To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. - Mahatma Gandhi

"Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are." - Gretel Ehrlich

"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?" –E.M. Forster

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." - Rachel Carson

“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.” – Jane Austen

"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself." –Henry David Thoreau

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” – John Keats

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." –John Muir

 “If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence, we could rise up rooted, like trees.” – Rainer Maria Rilke