"Men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men." - Henry David Thoreau

 

“The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who are so removed from the world that they have no business on earth. They do not labour, but by contemplation alone they already live in heaven.”- Anthony of Padua

 

“Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain.” - Jim Rohn

 

“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.” - Victor Hugo

 

“Nature is the best medicine for serenity. Peace, calmness, stillness. It’s good for the heart.” - Karen Madwell

 

"Remember that life's is a great balancing act.” - Dr. Seuss

 

“Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

 

“Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.” - Owen Feltham

 

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.” - Albert Camus

 

"Life is life. Some of the wisest people you meet are sweeping our streets." - Jeremy Corbyn

 

“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.”- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

 

“Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.” - H. Emilie Cady

 

“Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.” - Douglas Coupland

 

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” – Edward Abbey

 

“Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.” - Graham Greene

 

"Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man." - Stewart Udall

 

“The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” - Marcel Proust

 

“There’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.” – Sarah Kay

 

“We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them." - William Arthur Ward

 

“The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.” - Robert Fulghum

 

“Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.” - Allen Klein

 

“I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick.”- Will Smith

 

“It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.”- Alan Watts

 

"A beach is not only a sweep of sand but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean." - Henry Grunwald

 

“You can't train a penguin to act. You kind of have to take what you get.”- James Tupper

 

“Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” – David McCullough Jr.

 

“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.” - Napoleon Hill

 

“The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door.” - Paul McCartney

 

"You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.” - Saint Bernard

 

“A lily that is native to South Africa, it is seen as a symbol of beauty and freedom in this country.” - Rebekah P.