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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
Author: Ikkyu Sojun
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A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.
Author: Kevin Starr
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Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
Author: Sara Teasdale
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Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back.
Author: Gwyn Thomas
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Fragments came floating into his mind like bits of wood drifting down a stream, and he fished them out and fitted them together.
Author: Elizabeth Gray Vining
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Rainbows apologize for angry skies.
Author: Sylvia Voirol
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The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
Author: Loudon Wainwright
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Author: Walt Whitman
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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in.
Author: George Washington Carver
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Man must go back to nature for information.
Author: Thomas Paine
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Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language.
Author: Jean Rostand
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Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
Author: Blaise Pascal
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Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I love little children too but I don't cut off
their heads and stick them in vases.
http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow108/1.
Author: Geroge Bernard Shaw
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
Author: William Cowper
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When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.
Author: Robert Burns
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I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
Author: Leo Buscaglia
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A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
Author: James Dent
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Use what talent you possess-the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Author: Henry Van Dyke
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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Author: Jean Giraudoux
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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Author: Orison Swett Marden
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By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Author: Thomas Merton
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view.
Author: Harry Millner
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Until we end our violence against the earth- a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of military violence is ignored by most conservationists-how can we hope to end our violence against each other? The earth, which we all have in common, is our deepest bond, and our behavior toward it cannot help but be an earnest of our consideration for each other and for our descendants.
Author: Wendell Berry
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I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.
Author: Lydia M. Child
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Author: Richard P. Feynman
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The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
Author: Le Roi Jones
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Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
Author: Al Bernstein
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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Author: Russell Baker
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Aim for the stars and you'll make it to the moon. Aim for the moon and you'll never make it through the atmosphere.
Author: Ray Bedard
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What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
Author: Hal Boyle
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The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
Author: Sarah Brown
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Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.".
Author: Robert Byrne
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The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
Author: William Ellery Channing
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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Author: Galileo Galilei
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
Author: P. D. James
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The poetry of the earth is never dead.
Author: John Keats
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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Author: Rose Kennedy
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I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.
Author: Violette Leduc
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You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.
Author: Denise Levertov
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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.
Author: Martin Luther
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Author: Claude Monet
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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.
Author: Boris Pasternak
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In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.
Author: Vince Poscente
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Author: Carl Reiner
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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Author: Bertrand Russell
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