Verve Court

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.
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—Gretel Ehrlich

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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—Frank Lloyd Wright

There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.
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—Charlotte Eriksson

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.
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—Jacques-Yves Cousteau

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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—Robert Louis Stevenson

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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—John Burroughs

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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—Henry David Thoreau

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

—Rachel Carson