“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery — air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’”
—Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps, it says, ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.’”
—Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
—Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
—Steve Martin
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
“Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.”
—George Carlin
