Nature(213)

"Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much."
Joan Collins

"It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book."
Cyril Connolly

"I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature."
Abraham Crowley

"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."
e. e. cummings

"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."
e. e. cummings

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."
Anthony J. D'Angelo

"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."
Don DeLillo

"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"
Emily Dickinson

"There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind."
Annie Dillard

"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
Frederick Douglass