Bounty Quote by John Milton

“On rainy afternoons, embroidering with a group of friends on the begonia porch, she would lose the thread of the conversation and a tear…

— Gabriel García Márquez

Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators . . . she will lay bare…

— H. P. Blavatsky

Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“[S]he realized quite abruptly that this thing which took him off, which kept him out so many hours day after day, this thing that…

— Algernon Blackwood

She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs,…

— Anonymous

The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from…

— Aeschylus

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

— Ruth Ozeki

Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast trained it…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Alma knelt in the tall grass and brought her face as near as she could to the stone. And there, rising no more than…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.

— Henry David Thoreau