"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter." ~Ansel Adams
"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera." ~Lewis Hine
"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art." ~Ambrose Bierce
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright." ~Henry David Thoreau
"God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars." ~Martin Luther
"There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling." ~Mirabel Osler
"It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours." ~James Lalropui Keivom
"Take thy plastic spade,It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants,They are thy colours."~William Mason, The English Garden, 1782
"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment." ~Jane Austen
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." ~Albert Einstein
"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
"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me." ~Thomas Jefferson