Amazing Nature Photographs

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

       "Nature always tends to act in the simplest way." 

                                                                                              -Bernoulli

   "Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life   

     lasts."

                                                                                     -Rachel Carlson

                "Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher."

                                                                                      -William Wordsworth

   "Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend 

     takes time." 

                                                                                                -Georgia O'Keffe

                         "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. "

                                                                                           -Navajo Proverb

    "Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive   

     stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language."

                                                                   -Aldo Leopold - A Sand County Almanac

     "In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia."

                                                         -Charles A. Lindbergh, Life, 22 December 1967

                          "We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. "

                                                                      -William Hazlitt "On Taste" (1859)

     "Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind longs to play with your hair."

                                                                                         -Kahlil Gibran

    "If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that   

     she speaks in."

                  -Richard Feynman - Speaking of mathematics in The Character of Physical Law (1965) Ch. 2.

                 "We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans.  They are part of our own body."               

              -Thich Nhat Hanh                                  

  

   "Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure 

    as long as life lasts."

                                                                    -Rachel Carlson

   "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 (1757-1827) Letter to Revd Dr Trusler, 1799-08-23

"There is something of the marvelous in all things of nature.  "

-Aristotle