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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Author: George Santayana
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.
Author: Bill Vaughan
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Author: Walt Whitman
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Author: Tennessee Williams
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The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
Author: Patrick Young
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The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.
Author: George Dana Boardman
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The ordinary corporation is a person for purposes of the adjudicatory processes, whether it represents proprietary, spiritual, aesthetic, or charitable causes.
So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life. The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.
Author: Justice William O Douglas
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Author: Dale Carnegie
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This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.
Author: Margaret Lindsey
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Isaiah 55
1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.
5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Author: Isaiah
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raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness
(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV).
Author: Anita Diamant
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Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them.
Author: Bob Ferris
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
Author: Sir John Lubbock
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Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
Author: Dorothy Parker
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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
Author: Robert Frost
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
Author: John Muir
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
Author: John Muir
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I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
Author: John Muir
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A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
Author: John Muir
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Author: Edward Abbey
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Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.
Author: Diane Ackerman
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Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Author: Hal Borland
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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Author: Emily Dickinson
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
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How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
Author: Charles Lindbergh
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Author: Anthony J. D'angelo
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Earth laughs in flowers.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
Author: John Muir
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I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Author: Georgia O'keeffe
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All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,-- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.
Author: Theodore Roethke
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Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.
Author: Lorraine Anderson
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The groves were God's first temples.
Author: William Cullen Bryant
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Author: Langston Hughes
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Author: Albert Camus
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Author: Ansel Adams
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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 will only tune in.
Author: George Washington Carver
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Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.
Author: Philip James Bailey
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Author: Jane Austen
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Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
Author: John Burroughs
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