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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Walter Scott

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Francis Bacon

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

William Hazlitt

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

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Vincent Van Gogh

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

James Whitcomb Riley

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."

Robert Byrne

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Ansel Adams

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