Nature(213)

"I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods."
Wendell Berry

"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."
Ambrose Bierce

"The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a other must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child."
Erma Bombeck

"You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates."
Erma Bombeck

"A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart."
Hal Borland

"You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet."
Hal Borland

"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."
Hal Borland

"What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else."
Hal Boyle

"Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass."
Rupert Brooke

"For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours."
Pam Brown