Nature(213)

"And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?"
Carl Sandburg

"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder."
Carl Sandburg

"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."
George Santayana

"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth."
Albert Schweitzer

"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn."
Walter Scott

"Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish into the vast sea of God."
Richard Selzer

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
William Shakespeare

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."
William Shakespeare

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."
William Shakespeare

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
George Bernard Shaw