Nature(213)

"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."
Isaac Bashevis Singer

"What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!"
Logan P. Smith

"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."
Socrates

"Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms."
Ikkyu Sojun

"Only one koan matters - you."
Ikkyu Sojun

"It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky."
Muriel Spark

"A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow."
Kevin Starr

"Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die."
Gil Stern

"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."
Robert Louis Stevenson

"There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself."
Ruth Stout