Nature(213)

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

"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her."
Francis Bacon

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
Francis Bacon

"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
Russell Baker

"Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger."
Saint Basil

"Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool."
Mary Catherine Bateson

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."
Henry Ward Beecher

"Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains."
Henry Ward Beecher

"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."
Eric Berne

"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."
Wendell Berry