“Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.”

The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.

But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.

Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.

In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.

One must labor for beauty as for bread.

As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.

As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.

At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

Beauty surrounds us.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

Sometimes you can have a whole lifetime in a day and never notice that this is a beautiful as it gets.