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SKY
When we think of the sky,

we tend to look up,

but the sky actually begins at the earth.

-Diane Ackerman

Flat country seems to give the sky
such a chance.
-Dodie Smith

The sky is low, the clouds are mean.
-Emily Dickinson

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
-Duke Ellington

The dry cloud, waterless,
can have no rain-giving quality.
-Hakim Jami

WIND

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

-Titus Lucretius Carus     

There is something in the wind.
-William Shakespeare

The wind is a difficult sound to get.
It's always changing.
-Don Van Vliet

The wind is rising!...
We must try to live.
-Paul Valéry

My spirit rises
with the rising wind.
-Theodore Roethke

Wind
Gives speech
To trees.
-Helen Aoki Kaneko

With every gust of wind
the butterfly changes its place
on the willow
-Basho

Only those in tune with nature
seem to pick up on the energy in wind.
All sorts of things get swept off in the breeze -
ghosts, pieces of soul, voices unsung,
thoughts repressed, love uncherished,
and a thousands galore or spiritual ether.
Wind is an emotional rush
because emotions are rushing by.
-Terri Guillemets

The tempest encourages passion.
-Novalis

The way of the Wind
is a strange, wild way.
-Ingram Crackett

The wind said
You know I'm
the result of
forces beyond my control.
-A. R. Ammons

My wind has turned to bitter north,
That was so soft a south before.
-Arthur Hugh Clough

What wind giveth, wind taketh away.
-Persian Proverb

If you surrender to the wind,

you can ride it.

-Toni Morrison

The wind carries it in its belly.
-The Emerald Tablet

The really nice breezes

blow through my body

and into my soul.

-Astrid Alauda

The answer, my friend,
is blowin' in the wind,
the answer is blowin' in the wind.
-Bob Dylan

RAIN

It was a rainy night.

It was the myth of the rainy night.

-Jack Kerouac

The rain comes
when the wind calls.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rain showers my spirit
and waters my soul.
-Terri Guillemets

I think rain is as necessary to the mind
as to vegetation.
My very thoughts become thirsty,
and crave the moisture.
-John Burroughs

Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your head
with silver liquid drops.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
-Langston Hughes

Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it.
It will take as long as it wants, the rain.
As long as it talks, I am going to listen.
-Thomas Merton

For after all
the best thing one can do when it is raining,
is to let it rain.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Rain! whose soft architectural hands
have power to cut stones,
and chisel to shapes of grandeur
the very mountains.
-Henry Ward Beecher

SNOW

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. 

You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, 

and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? 

-J.B. Priestley

If only you could hear the sound of snow...

Hakuin

Snow falls on snow -
silence.
-Santoka

SEA
The sea has never been friendly to man.
At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
-Joseph Conrad

The sea is for all men
one of the greatest and most constant maternal symbols.
-Marie Bonaparte

The sea, once it casts its spell,
holds one in its net of wonder forever.
-Jacques-Yves Cousteau

The sea, the sea’s swell, silent and breathless.

-Clarice Lispector

The sea has many voices,
Many gods and many voices.
-T. S. Eliot

The sea pronounces something,
over and over, in a hoarse whisper;
I cannot quite make it out.
-Annie Dillard

So long as there is the sea,
there will be waves.
-Aurobindo Ghose

Never turn your back on the ocean.
-Hawaiian Proverb

Down beyond the haven
the tide comes with a shout.
-William Sharp

The breaking of a wave

cannot explain the whole sea.

-Vladimir Nabokov

What dost thou do to pacify the furious sea?
I control my own anger.
-Edgar Quinet

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests,
must eventually collapse within itself.
-Stefan Zweig

The gray silence,

the gray waves,

the gray washes of the sea.

-William Sharp

If you sip the sea just once,
you will know the taste of the oceans of the world.
-Zen Saying

I discovered the secret of the sea

in meditation upon the dewdrop.

-Kahlil Gibran

Whatever we lose
(like a you or a me),
It's always our self
we find in the sea.
-e e cummings

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.
The touch of the sea is sensuous,
enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
-Kate Chopin

Distinct as the billows,
yet one as the sea.
-James Montgomery

The sea and wave are one, yet is the wave
The sea's and not the little wave's the sea.
-Shankara

There is no new wave, only the sea.
-Claude Chabrol

MOUNTAINS
No matter how sophisticated you may be,
a large granite mountain cannot be denied -
it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
-Ansel Adams

Mountains define you.

You cannot define Them.

-May Sarton

Truly it may be said

that the outside of a mountain

is good for the inside of a man.

-George Wherry

Only one mountain
can know the core of another mountain.
-Frida Kahlo

Why is it among the most
glacial mountain peaks
I find
the greatest warmth?
-Ivan Granger

The mountain remains unmoved
at seeming defeat by the mist.
-Rabindranath Tagore

Blue mountains
after rainfall -
much bluer.
-Taoist

The mountain comes and goes
Like a watermark
On celestial paper.
-Louise Bogan

What are men to rocks and mountains?
-Jane Austen

It is not the mountains we conquer
but ourselves.
-Edmund Hillary

We sit together, the mountain 

and me,

Until only the mountain remains.

-Li Po

You are the central mountain, 

and the central mountain is everywhere. 

-Joseph Campbell

TREES, WOODS AND FORESTS

The tree which moves some to tears of joy 

is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way.

-William Blake

What business have I in the woods,
if I am thinking of something out to the woods?
-Henry David Thoreau

What right do I have to be in the woods,
if the woods are not in me.
-John Cage

We all have forests in our minds,

Forests unexplored, unending.

Every one of us gets lost in the forest,

every night, alone.

-Ursula K L Guin

Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
-Rabindranath Tagore

Between every two pine trees

there is a door leading to a new way of life.
-John Muir

Trees are sanctuaries.

Whoever knows how to speak to them,

whoever knows how to listen to the,

can learn the truth.

They do not preach learning and precepts,

they preach undeterred by particulars,

and ancient law of life.

-Hermann Hesse

We humans look rather different from a tree. 

Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does.

But down deep, at the molecular heart of life,

the trees and we are essentially identical.

-Carl Sagan 

Solitary trees,
if they grow at all,
grow tall.
-Winston Churchill

For a tree to become tall
it must grow tough roots
among the rocks.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowing trees,
I understand the meaning of patience.
Knowing grass,
I can appreciated persistence.
-Hal Borland

If you would know strength and patience,
welcome the company of trees.
-Hal Borland

To live like a tree!
What growth!
What depth!
What uprightness!
What truth!
-Gaston Bachelard

One is wise to cultivate the tree

that bears fruit in our soul.

-Henry David Thoreau

May my life be like a a great hospitable tree,

and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.

-John Henry Jowett

The most joyful thing I know is the peace, the silence
that one enjoys in the woods or on the tilled land.
-Jean-Francois Millet

It is not so much for its beauty 

that the forest makes a claim upon our hearts,

as for that subtle something,

that quality of air that emanation from old trees,

that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary sprit.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Let us walk among trees

and return to the garden of our soul.

-Laurel Virtues Wauters

Today I have grown taller
for walking with the trees.
-Karl Baker

One might say I had decided
to marry the silence of the forest.
-Thomas Merton

PRAIRIE
There's no place you can go on the prairie
that you don't hear the white noise of the wind,
steady and rough as surf curling
along a non-existent shore.
-Diane Ackerman

Flat country seems to give the sky
such a chance.
-Dodie Smith

DESERT
What makes the desert beautiful
is that somewhere it hides a well.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

FLOWERS
The fairest thing in nature, a flower,
still has its roots in earth and the manure.
-D. H.  Lawrence

Earth laughs in flowers.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
-Henrich Heine

The Amen of nature
is always a flower.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

MISCELLANEOUS
The woods were made for the hunter of dreams,
the brooks of the fishers of song.
-Sam Walter Foss

The heights of granite and the grassy steep
My spirit in a magic fortress keep
Where in the silence, singing waters start.
-Ann Bridge

Across the silent stream
Where the dream-shadows go,
from the dim blue Hill of Dream
I have heard the west wind blow.
-William Sharp

The sky and the water
are a single
deepening blue.
-Muso Soseki

I am a wave of the sea
And the foam of the wave
And the wind of the foam
And the wings of the wind.
My soul's in the salt of the sea
In the weight of the wave
In the bubbles of foam
In the ways of the wind.
My gift is the depth of the sea
The strength of the wave
The lightness of foam
The speed of the wind.
-Joseph Mary Plunkett

I am the daughter of earth and water,
And the nursling of the sky;
I pass through the power of the ocean and shores,
I change, but I cannot die.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley