When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman. (Quote by - Joseph Wood Krutch)

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. (Quote by - John Muir)

The poetry of the earth is never dead. (Quote by - John Keats)

Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. (Quote by - Diane Ackerman)

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. (Quote by - Russell Baker)

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. (Quote by - James Dent)

The groves were God's first temples. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. (Quote by - Carl Reiner)

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. (Quote by - Galileo Galilei)

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow. (Quote by - Margaret Lindsey)

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. (Quote by - Sara Teasdale)

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. (Quote by - Sir John Lubbock)

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs; Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers! (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species that roams corporate waters will prove just as hardy. (Quote by - Eric Gelman)

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. (Quote by - Jean Giraudoux)

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. (Quote by - John Fowles)

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. (Quote by - Sarah Brown)

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. (Quote by - William Cowper)

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. (Quote by - James Anthony Froude)

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. (Quote by - Arthur C. Clarke)