Nature(213)

"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."
Henry David Thoreau

"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
Henry David Thoreau

"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."
Henry David Thoreau

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."
Henry David Thoreau

"Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend."
Mao Tse-Tung

"It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel."
Bill Vaughan

"Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous."
Leonardo da Vinci

"Fragments came floating into his mind like bits of wood drifting down a stream, and he fished them out and fitted them together."
Elizabeth Gray Vining

"The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing."
Loudon Wainwright

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
Alice Walker