And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
e. e. cummings

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin

Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
Robin Williams