I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

- John Muir (1838-1914)

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and to suck out all the marrow of life, to put to rout all that was not life, and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.

- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.

- Unknown Native American

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

May these quiet hills bring peace
To the souls of those who are seeking.

- Sada Coe (1910-1979)

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

- Friedrich Nietzche (1844-1900)

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

- Claude Monet (1840-1926)

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in.

- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

- Frank Llyod Wright (1867-1959)

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children.

- John James Audobon (1785-1851)