“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.” – Vladimir Nabokov

“Nature does nothing in vain.” – Aristotle

“The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.” – Saint Teresa of Avila

“I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.” – Helen Hunt Jackson

“I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.” – Muhammad Iqbal

“The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.” – Zora Neale Hurston

“But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.” – H. P. Lovecraft

“Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.” – Peter Benchley

“You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.” – Edward Abbey