#Nature

"Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up."

"I can't begin to tell you how fulfilling the perennial nature of 'Elf' on television has been for me. It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor."

"I believe in a higher consciousness. I also believe that nature is supremely conscious. A tree is more conscious than we are."

"Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey’d have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are."

"Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."

"I knew that we would obtain it, I thought that what I had dreamed, had no reason to be complied."

"Like nature, we must grow with tranquility, beauty, harmony, and love."

"Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?"

"Nature is always talking to you, smiling to you, and singing to you. To understand, you just have to be open to listen with your heart and soul."

"'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'"

"I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature."

"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men."

"I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives."

"The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and love of self...from within."

"A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art."

"I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees."

"The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?"

"Professional wrestling is a lot like cuddling, I thought as I hugged a tree. As far as lumberjacks go, I’m slow, but when the tree finally falls for me, it falls hard."

"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."

"I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of of our fossils, radioactive at that."