Nature(213)

"In your standard-issue family - of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based - there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones."
Delia Ephron

"In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me."
John Fowles

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
R. Buckminster Fuller

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."
Galileo Galilei

"I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets."
Hamlin Garland

"Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy."
Hamlin Garland

"My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful."
Hamlin Garland

"Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations."
David Gerrold

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
Kahlil Gibran

"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life."
Jean Giraudoux