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“Keep your eyes to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.” -Helen Keller

Photo: Zebra Longwing Canaveral National Seashore

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” -Maya Angelou

Photo: Pine Warbler Merritt Island NWR

“Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better”. -Albert Einstein

Photo: American Avocet, Merritt Island NWR

Photo: Spiderwort Indian River Lagoon Preserve

“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” - Gerard De Nerval

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”  ― John Keats

Photo: Resurrection Fern (before and after rain) Indian River Lagoon Preserve

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Photo: Painted Bunting, Merritt Island NWR

“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

“Nature is a haunted house; art is a house that tries to be haunted.”  -Emily Dickinson

Photo: Purple Sea Urchin Ponce Inlet North Jetty

“Just living is not enough………...one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” -Hans Christian Andersen

Photo: Morning Glory Turtle Mound, Canaveral NS

“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” -Anthony J. D’Angelo

Photo: Sunrise, Ann Arbor, MI

“If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” -Vincent van Gogh

Photo: Acorn Worm fecal castings Disappearing Island, Ponce Inlet

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” -Henri Matisse

Photo: Pink Purslane Merritt Island NWR

“Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” -Langston Hughes

Photo: Rain Clouds over Volusia County

“Earth laughs in flowers.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Photo: Tasselflower Indian River Lagoon Preserve

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Photo: Gopher Tortoise Canaveral National Seashore

“Wilderness holds answers to questions that man has not yet learned to ask.” -Nancy Newhall

Photo: Spider Web, Merritt Island NWR

“Spring is Nature’s way of saying ‘Let’s party!’” -Robin Williams

Photo: Great Egret in breeding plumage Indian River, New Smyrna Beach

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” -Jacques Cousteau

Photo: Atlantic Ocean Surf New Smyrna Beach

“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

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”  ― Henry David Thoreau

Photo: Ceraunus Blue Butterfly Merritt Island NWR

“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

“In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.” -Aristotle

Photo: Cloudless Sulphur & Cape Honeysuckle Canaveral National Seashore

“In nature nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes.”  ― Antoine Lavoisier

Photo: Caterpillar and Adult Black Swallowtail Butterfly Canaveral National Seashore

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” -Frank Lloyd Wright

Photo: Common Baskettail Canaveral National Seashore

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Photo: Wood Duck, Volusia County

“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

“Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.”  -Gretel Ehrlich

Photo: Blue Land Crab New Smyrna Beach

“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

“I like this place and would willingly waste my time in it.” -William Shakespeare

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Photo: Wetland Restoration Area Marine Discovery Center New Smyrna Beach

“We need the tonic of wildness.... we can never have enough of nature.”  -Henry David Thoreau 

Photo: River Otter Merritt Island NWR

“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

“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the windlongs to play with your hair.” -Kahlil Gibran

Photo: Windblown Grass Tracks in the Sand

“Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.”  -Blaise Pascal

Photo: Chad Truxall Marine Discovery Center

“Live in each season as it passes. Resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”  ― Henry David Thoreau

“Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.” ― Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires

“Men argue. Nature acts.” ― Voltaire

“Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.” ― Michel de Montaigne, Montaigne: Essays