Nature does not hurrry
yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

Keep your faith in all beautiful things;
in the sun when it is hidden,
in the spring when it is gone.
-Roy R. Gibson

Swinging on delicate hinges;
the autumn leaf
almost off the stem.
-Jack Kerouac

Nature will bear the closest inspection.
She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,
and take an insect view of its plain.
-Henry David Thoreau

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
-Elizabeth Lawrence

Earths crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God.

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone,
but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
-Martin Luther

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Albert Camus

Of rocks and trees of skies and seas
His hand the wonders wrought.

Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is whose leaves return to the soil.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place.
-Annie Dillard

summer

All the way to heaven is heaven.
-St. Catherine of Siena

Living in the middle of beauty like this, we've no call to have puny ideas about God. ...His world is so fancy fine, so full of wonderment.
-Catherine Marshall

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun. I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

In summer, the song sings itself.
-William Carlos Williams

There are two ways to live your life - one is as if nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein