Nature

577px-MotherTeresa_094“We need to find God, and He cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence, see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch our souls.”
– Mother Theresa*

 

375px-Ralph_Waldo_Emerson_ca1857_retouched“Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson*

 

 

 

 

 

“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks n the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.”
– George Washington Carver*

 

“Keep close to nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”
– John Muir*

 

“I took a walk in the forest and came out taller than the trees.”
– Henry David Thoreau*