Quotes and Trees

I like quotes, and I like trees.
Since I'm already getting ahead on reading Emerson's essay, "Nature" for Friday, I thought now would be a good time to share a bunch of quotes that I've collected about nature that make me smile.
Then I'm going to go outside and finish tomorrows reading.

"Most persons do not see the sun. At least, they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of them an, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life[.]"
-Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles to go before I sleep."
-Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."
-William Shakespeare, As You Like It

"'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to."
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"It'll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they'll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields... and eating the first of strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?"
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
-William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressidea

"I believe that a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars."
-Walt Whitman

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?"
-Oscar Wilde

"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so one - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains."
-Walt Whitman

"Rivers belong where they can ramble / Eagles belong where they can fly / I've got to be where my spirit can run free / Gotta find my corner of the sky!"
-Stephen Schwartz, Pippin

"A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine."
-Anne Brontë

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
-Oscar Wilde

"Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us."
-Neil Gaiman, Stardust