41. “The poetry of the earth
is never dead.”
― John Keats
Photo: Resurrection Fern
(before and after rain)
Indian River Lagoon Preserve
42. “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photo: Painted Bunting, Merritt Island NWR
43. “The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or touched – they must be
felt with the heart.” -Helen Keller
Photo: Sunrise, Merritt Island NWR
44. “Nature is a haunted house; art is a
house that tries to be haunted.”
-Emily Dickinson
Photo: Purple Sea Urchin
Ponce Inlet North Jetty
45. “Just living is not enough………...
one must have sunshine, freedom,
and a little flower.”
-Hans Christian Andersen
Photo: Morning Glory
Turtle Mound, Canaveral NS
46. “Wherever you go, no matter what
the weather, always bring your own
sunshine.”
-Anthony J. D’Angelo
Photo: Sunrise, Ann Arbor, MI
47. “If you truly love Nature, you
will find beauty everywhere.”
-Vincent van Gogh
Photo: Acorn Worm fecal castings
Disappearing Island, Ponce Inlet
48. “There are always flowers for those
who want to see them.”
-Henri Matisse
Photo: Pink Purslane
Merritt Island NWR
49. “Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
-Langston Hughes
Photo: Rain Clouds over Volusia County
50. “Earth laughs in flowers.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photo: Tasselflower
Indian River Lagoon Preserve
51. “Adopt the pace of nature:
her secret is patience.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photo: Gopher Tortoise
Canaveral National Seashore
52. “Wilderness holds answers to questions
that man has not yet learned to ask.”
-Nancy Newhall
Photo: Spider Web, Merritt Island NWR
53. “Spring is Nature’s way of saying
‘Let’s party!’”
-Robin Williams
Photo: Great Egret in breeding plumage
Indian River, New Smyrna Beach
54. “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds
one in its net of wonder forever.”
-Jacques Cousteau
Photo: Atlantic Ocean Surf
New Smyrna Beach
55. “Our task is to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature
and its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein
Photo: Acorn Worm Fecal Castings
Disappearing Island, Indian River
Photo: Five-lined Skink
New Smyrna Beach
56. “Heaven is under our feet
as well as over our heads.”
― Henry David Thoreau
Photo: Ceraunus Blue Butterfly
Merritt Island NWR
57. “All those who believe in me share
in the freedom I feel when I fly.”
-John Denver
Photos: Royal Tern
Bald Eagle
Northern Gannet
New Smyrna Beach Shore
58. “In all things of nature, there
is something of the marvelous.”
-Aristotle
Photo: Cloudless Sulphur &
Cape Honeysuckle
Canaveral National Seashore
59. “In nature nothing is created, nothing
is lost, everything changes.”
― Antoine Lavoisier
Photo: Caterpillar and Adult
Black Swallowtail Butterfly
Canaveral National Seashore
60. “I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Photo: Common Baskettail
Canaveral National Seashore
61. “Nature always wears
the colors of the spirit.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photo: Wood Duck, Volusia County
62. “Everything comes in time to him
who knows how to wait. There is
nothing stronger than these two:
patience and time, they will do it
all.” -Leo Tolstoy
Photo: Live Oak Tree and Acorn
Canaveral National Seashore
63. “Everything in nature invites us
constantly to be what we are.”
-Gretel Ehrlich
Photo: Blue Land Crab
New Smyrna Beach
64. “Every living organism is fulfilled
when it follows the right path for its
own nature.” -Marcus Aurelius
Photo: Scarlet Tanager in Mulberry Tree
Canaveral National Seashore
65. “I like this place and would
willingly waste my time in it.”
-William Shakespeare
Photo:
Photo: Wetland Restoration Area
Marine Discovery Center
New Smyrna Beach
66. “We need the tonic of wildness....
we can never have enough of nature.”
-Henry David Thoreau
Photo: River Otter
Merritt Island NWR
67. “Every blade in the field - every
leaf in the forest - lays down its
life in its season as beautifully as
it was taken up.”
-Henry David Thoreau
Photo: Nature’s Recycling Center
Volusia County
68. “Forget not that the earth delights
to feel your bare feet and the wind
longs to play with your hair.”
-Kahlil Gibran
Photo:
Windblown Grass Tracks in the Sand
69. “Those honor nature well, who teach
that she can speak on everything.”
-Blaise Pascal
Photo: Chad Truxall
Marine Discovery Center
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72. “Live in each season as it passes.
Resign yourself to the influence
of the earth.”
― Henry David Thoreau
