Nature Quotes

"I love not Man the less, but Nature more."

- Lord Byron

"In wildness is the preservation of the world."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The month of May is the pleasant time; its face is beautiful; the blackbird sings his full song, the living wood is his holding, the cuckoos are singing and ever singing; there is a welcome before the brightness of the summer."

- Lady Gregory

"May has come in, young May the beautiful, weaving the sweetest chaplet of the year. Along the eastern corridors, she walks. What time the clover rocks the earliest bee. Her feet are flush with sunrise, and her veil floating in breezy odors o’er her hair."

- Thomas Buchanan Read

"At last came the golden month of the wild folk — honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents and songs of the dawning year."

- Samuel Scoville Jr.

"Horticulturally, the month of May is opening night, Homecoming, and Graduation Day all rolled into one."

- Tam Mossman

"How tender is the touch of May While gentle winds are blowing, And in a sweet yet silent way, All sylvan things are growing."

- William Hamilton Hayne

"Winds of May, that dance on the sea, Dancing a ring-around in glee From furrow to furrow, while overhead The foam flies up to be garlanded."

- James Joyce

"May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm the hours?"

- Edward Thurlow

"Queer things happen in the garden in May. Little faces forgotten appear, and plants thought to be dead suddenly wave a green hand to confound you."

- W. E. Johns

"The month of May comes differently in cities: not for us white blossom on the hedgerows, bluebells in the woods — instead the sun’s rays burnish bricks and mellow pavements; seeds burst into flower in the cracks between the stones; speedwell and bindweed bloom among the rubble."

- Heidi Thomas

"The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth."

- Louis Agassiz

"Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound."

- Edwin Curran

"Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile"

- William Cullen

"Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons"

- Jim Bishop

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower"

- Albert Camus

"Listen… With faint dry sound, like steps of passing ghosts, the leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees and fall."

- Adelaide Crapsey

"Pumpkins, in October, as fat as the full moon, they sit on our doorstep at night and glow."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman, and we quoted E.E. Cummings back and forth."

- Roger Ebert

"leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground."

- Andrea Gibson

"It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it."

- Diana Gabaldon

"Autumn... the year’s last, loveliest smile."

- William Cullen Bryant

"Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods."

- William Wordsworth

"Autumn, the year’s last loveliest smile."

- William Cullen Bryant

"His beard was all colors, a grove of trees in autumn, deep brown and fire-orange and wine-red, an untrimmed tangle across the lower half of his face. His cheeks were apple-red. He looked like a friend; like someone you had known all your life."

- Neil Gaiman

"How beautifully leaves grow old! How full of light and color are their last days!"

- John Burroughs

"The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves. We have had our summer evenings; now for October eves!"

- Humbert Wolfe

"November. Crows are approaching, wounded leaves fall to the ground."

- Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

"That soft autumnal time, the woodland foliage now is gathered by the wild November blast."

- John Howard Bryant

"Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast."

- Barbara Delinsky