Nature

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.~Zeno (335 BC - 264 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.~Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park

Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.~Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005

If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change.- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.~Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)