Where the Sky Meets the Earth

We don't always get to experience the view of heaven and earth because we often don't bother to look. Sometimes, just opening your eyes is enough to experience the sheer beauty and magic of nature. Enjoy these spectacular photos and words of wisdom.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy ~ your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. ~ Annie Leibovit

Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it. ~ Christopher Heyerdahl

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~ Albert Einstein

Land really is the best art. ~ Andy Warhol

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Nature is wont to hide herself. ~ Heraclitus

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. ~ John Burroughs

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression. ~ T. E. Lawrence

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? ~ E. M. Forster

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

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~ Khalil Gibran

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. ~ Robert Frost

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. ~ Luigi Pirandello

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. ~ Henri Matisse

Water is the driving force of all nature. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. ~ Elizabeth Bowen

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~ Hans Christian Andersen

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~ Albert Camus

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. ~ Victor Hugo

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. ~ Martin Luther

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. ~ Georges Simenon

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. ~ John Muir

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. ~ Hal Borland

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. ~ Joseph Conrad

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!' ~ Robin Williams

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. ~ John Fowles

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ~ William Shakespeare

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. ~ Jimmy Carter

When I have a terrible need of ~ shall I say the word ~ religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. ~ Diane Ackerman

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. ~ John Lubbock

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. ~ Aristotle

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ~ Antoine de Saint~ Exupery

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.