Kavanagh Apple Trees

"But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer. And looking around, I noticed the other small trees and wild plants and grasses had sprung up under the protection of the trees."
- Ruskin Bond

"Two Trees
A portion of your soul has been
entwined with mine
A gentle kind of togetherness, while
separately we stand.
As two trees deeply rooted in separate plots of ground,
While their topmost branches
come together,
Forming a miracle of lace
against the heavens."
- Janet Mills

Dandelion Face

"Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning."
- Lydia M. Child

Swirling Vine

"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
- George Washington

Clouds Surrounding Field

"These people have learned not from books, but in fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs."
- Anton Chekhov

Little White and Purple Flowers

"I must have flowers, always, and always."
- Claude Monet

Mini Pine Trees

"To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy."

Clouds Over Field

"For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it."
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Backyard

"I will follow my instincts, and be myself for good or ill."
- John Muir

Lighted Trees

"What we are doing to the forest of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year."
- Chad Sugg

Purple Mushroom

"To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana."
- Gautama Buddha

Fluffy Flower

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into."
- Henry Beecher

Small White Flower

"There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon."
- Matsuo Basho

Self Mushrooms Climbing a Tree

"The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows..."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Purple String Flowers

"Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock"
- Henry Ward Beecher

Star Leafed Plant

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Green Trees

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."
- William Blake

Orange Flower

"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair."
- Susan Polis Schutz