"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."
Pedro Calderon de la Barca on Nature"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
Albert Einstein on Nature"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 on Nature"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."
Abraham Lincoln on Nature"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 on Nature"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."
"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."
"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."