Nature

"The answer to everything can be found in nature, if you know where to look and how to ask."
                                                                                                                              -The movie The Power of One

"Do you see those flowers?  Do you see the sunlight?  Do you see the birds flying?  You hate me for wanting that?. . .Mos of you humans don't know what you have.  You have the most beautiful planet in the galaxy.  No other place is so alive.  In no other place are there so many trees, so many amazing creatures.  You live in a palace.  You live in paradise."
                                                                                    -Animorphs:  The Departure by K. A. Applegate

The tremendous beauty of those peaks was inspirational, as so many natural forms are to the Japanese...They also represented those forces in nature, those powerful and inevitable forces that cannot be resisted, reminding a man that sometimes he must simply endure that which cannot be changed.
                                      ~Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston

Concealed in the grass was the decayed carcass of a doe, hardly more than a skeeton with a few tattered shreds of hide clinging to the white bones.  "It's sort of beautiful, I think...She must have come here to die--she was wounded somehow...she's just becoming part of the earth now...see--first the birds eat it.  Crows and vultures. And then the mice gnaw the bones & take the fur.  And then the beetles come.  Once, in the spring, the whole skeleton was covered in butterflies.
                                                                                Under a Different Sky by Deborah Savage

...looking at the paintings in astonishment.  Each one was swept with passionate expanses of color, and from the bold patterns of light and shadow she began to discern familiar things...and let the paintings enclose her so completely she felt the sun's warmth flowing from the siennas & ochers that made up the fields and the shade of the trees.  A cloak of forests, mountains, & weather-worn buildings wrapped her in a world as secret & apart...

                                                                             Under a Different Sky by Deborah Savage