A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot. -Anonymous
What is the good of your stars and trees,
your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? -E. M. Forster
The three elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. -Henry Beston
I can endure no longer to remain Upon a doorstep in the rain. -Horace
The mountains are calling
and I must go.
-John Muir
I feel the necessity of deepening
the stream of my life.
-Henry David Thoreau
I go into the wilderness
and rediscover the home within.
-China Galland
I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine. -Edward Abbey
A rainy day is the perfect time
for a walk in the woods.
-Rachel Carson
The whole wilderness seems to be alive and familiar, full of humanity.
The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly.
-John Muir
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves,
words that other men could no hear,
and I pricked up my ears to listen
to the revelation of their harmony.
-Gustave Flaubert
We can speak without voice
to the trees and to the clouds and the waves of the sea.
Without sound they respond
through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds
and the murmuring of the sea.
-Paul Tillich
Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone. -John Muir
I hear the wind blow, and I feel that it was worth being born just to hear the wind blow. -Fernando Pessoa
What is there in a storm that moves me so?
Why am I so much better and stronger
and more certain of life while a storm is passing?
I do not know, and yet I love a storm,
more, far more, than anything in nature.
-Kahlil Gibran
When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore and they felt that they could then be interpreters. -Stephen Crane
The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave. -Philip James Bailey
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
-William Wordsworth
Night hovers all day
in the boughs of the fir tree.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
White charcoal
in former times
it was a snowy branch
-Tadatomo
Dirt, mud, stars, water - I know you as if you were myself, How could I be afraid? -Mary Oliver
The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth. -Robert Anton Wilson
The earth is filled with sky.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The clouds' play - nature's essential poetic game -Novalis
now I can see the wind the falling snow has given it a body -John Sandbach
When snow falls, nature listens. -Antoinette van Kleeff
A handful of pine-seed will cover the mountains
with a green majesty of forest.
I too will set my face to the wind
and throw my handful of seed on high.
-William Sharp
You must love the crust of the earth
on which you dwell more than
the sweet crust of any bread or cake.
-Henry David Thoreau
A lake is landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. -Henry David Thoreau
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
Here in the stillness of snow falling on snow. -Taneda Santoka
Winter solitude - in a world of one color the sound of the wind. -Matsuo Basho
The whole world was a vast moving screen of snow -
but even now it said peace, it said remoteness,
it said cold, it said sleep.
-Conrad Aiken
The snow is melting into music. -John Muir
Like the sound of a fire crackling:
River snow, Melting. -Keiki Ito
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. -Tennessee Williams
Two mountain peaks belong together,
never touch.
What joins things is deeply hidden.
-William Douglas Horden
Where is the snow of yesteryear? -Francois Villon
Ice is the silent language of the peak; and fire the silent language of the star. -Conrad Aiken
The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it flows. -Antonio Machado
No matter now strong the wind howls, the mountain will never bow to it. -Chinese Proverb
Every river has its course. -Joseph ben Hiyya
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. -Langston Hughes
The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. -John Muir
The river is within us,
the sea all about us.
-T. S. Eliot
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of the flood, storm and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near to the heart of the world as I can. -John Muir
Forests, lakes and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. -Orison Swett Marden
Be like the Ocean which receives all streams and rivers. The Ocean's mighty calm remains unmoved; it feels them not. -Helena P. Blavatsky
