Nature(213)

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."
Rabindranath Tagore

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
Rabindranath Tagore

"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."
Sara Teasdale

"Grass grows by inches but it's killed by feet."
George Thoma

"Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back."
Gwyn Thomas

"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn."
Henry David Thoreau

"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."
Henry David Thoreau

"Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it."
Henry David Thoreau

"Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself."
Henry David Thoreau

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."
Henry David Thoreau