Acquaintance Quote by John Muir

Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach…

— Toni Morrison

I just come and talk to the plants, really--very important to talk to them, they respond I find.

— Jacques Charles

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.

— Knut Hamsun

The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I know that I was hiking at a very young age because I remember being convinced that it was the trees that were talking.

— Jennifer Pharr Davis

And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not…

— Arthur Machen

A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my…

— Anne Rice

My parents had a gardener when I was growing up, and he and I would dig in the dirt together - my mom and…

— Howard Graham Buffett

I am on the longest, craziest journey of my life and loving every minute of it! Who would have known a few plants would…

— Jack Williams

“Even as a child I had had at intervals a fondness for observing strange forms in nature, not so much examining them as surrendering…

— Hermann Hesse

The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that…

— Peter Matthiessen