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!
- Edward Abbey
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
- Diane Ackerman
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Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.
- Diane Ackerman
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
- Ansel Adams
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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.
- Ansel Adams
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I am two with nature.
- Woody Allen
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Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
- Hans Christian Anderson
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
- Aristotle
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
- Aristotle
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
- Aristotle
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
- Jane Austen
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
- Francis Bacon
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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
- Russell Baker
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
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Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
- Eric Berne
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
- Wendell Berry
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
- Ambrose Bierce
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The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a other must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.
- Erma Bombeck
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You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
- Erma Bombeck
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
- Hal Borland
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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.
- Hal Borland
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
- Hal Borland
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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.
- Hal Boyle
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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
- Rupert Brooke
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
- Pam Brown
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
- Thomas Browne
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The groves were God's first temples.
- William Cullen Bryant
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Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.
- William Cullen Bryant
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
- John Burroughs
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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.
- John Burroughs
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
- John Burroughs
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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.
- Leo Buscaglia
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It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
- George H. W. Bush
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
- Samuel Butler
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Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."
- Robert Byrne
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roarI love not Man the less, but Nature more.
- Lord Byron
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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Albert Camus
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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.
- Dale Carnegie
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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
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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.
- George Washington Carver
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
- Willa Cather
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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.
- William Ellery Channing
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
- Anton Chekhov
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill
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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
- Joan Collins
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It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
- Cyril Connolly
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
- Abraham Crowley
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
- e. e. cummings
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
- e. e. cummings
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Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
- Don DeLillo
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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
- Emily Dickinson
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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
- Annie Dillard
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
- Frederick Douglass
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Use what talent you possess - the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
- Henry Havelock Ellis
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In your standard-issue family - of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based - there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones.
- Delia Ephron
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In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
- John Fowles
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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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.
- Galileo Galilei
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
- Hamlin Garland
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Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.
- Hamlin Garland
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
- Hamlin Garland
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Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
- David Gerrold
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
- Kahlil Gibran
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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
- Jean Giraudoux
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For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather, every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
- George Gissing
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
- Katharine Graham
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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.
- Dag Hammarskjold
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I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
- Debbie Harry
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
- William Hazlitt
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Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
- Kin Hubbard
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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.
- Langston Hughes
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
- Langston Hughes
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Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
- P. D. James
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The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.
- Ernest Jones
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The poetry of the earth is never dead.
- John Keats
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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
- Helen Keller
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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
- Rose Kennedy
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I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.
- John F. Kennedy
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I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
- Joyce Kilmer
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Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.
- Virgil A. Kraft
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Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
- Doug Larson
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In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
- Aldo Leopold
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Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
- David Letterman
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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
- Abraham Lincoln
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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?
- Charles Lindbergh
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In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
- Charles Lindbergh
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This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.
- Margaret Lindsey
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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
- James Russell Lowell
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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.
- John Lubbock
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
- John Lubbock
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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.
- Martin Luther
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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
- Robert Lynd
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The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
- William Manchester
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
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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.
- Orison Swett Marden
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There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
- Henri Matisse
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There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
- Marshall McLuhan
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We ran up the hills where, as you looked down toward the sea, the flooded rice fields lay shining in the sunlight like a broken mirror.
- Colin McPhee
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
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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.
- Thomas Merton
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Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
- Roger Miller
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view.
- Harry Millner
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Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.
- Stephanie Mills
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
- Claude Monet
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Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
- Marilyn Monroe
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
- Toni Morrison
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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.
- John Muir
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
- John Muir
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
- John Muir
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
- 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.
- 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.
- John Muir
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
- 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.
- John Muir
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We all travel the milky way together, trees and men... trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much.
- John Muir
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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir
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The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
- John Muir
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
- John Muir
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Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries.
- John Muir
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
- John Muir
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
- Iris Murdoch
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Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
- Gerard De Nerval
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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.
- Anais Nin
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I know why familles were created, with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
- Anais Nin
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Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
- Sandra Day O'Connor
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I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
- Georgia O'Keeffe
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Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust?
- Lane Olinghouse
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There are truths on this side of the Pyranees, which are falsehoods on the other.
- Blaise Pascal
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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.
- Boris Pasternak
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Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
- Antonio Porchia
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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.
- Vince Poscente
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I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
- Robert Redford
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
- Carl Reiner
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Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
- Jean Paul Richter
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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
- James Whitcomb Riley
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
- John Ruskin
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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.
- Bertrand Russell
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In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan
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And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?
- Carl Sandburg
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
- Carl Sandburg
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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.
- George Santayana
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
- Albert Schweitzer
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
- Walter Scott
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Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish into the vast sea of God.
- Richard Selzer
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
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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
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
- William Shakespeare
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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.
- George Bernard Shaw
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
- Logan Pearsall Smith
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
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Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
- Ikkyu Sojun
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Only one koan matters - you.
- Ikkyu Sojun
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It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.
- Muriel Spark
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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.
- Kevin Starr
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Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.
- Gil Stern
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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.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.
- Ruth Stout
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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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.
- Sara Teasdale
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Grass grows by inches but it's killed by feet.
- George Thoma
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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.
- Gwyn Thomas
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
- Henry David Thoreau
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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.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
- Henry David Thoreau
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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau
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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.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
- Mao Tse-Tung
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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.
- Bill Vaughan
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Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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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.
- Elizabeth Gray Vining
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The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
- Loudon Wainwright
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
- Alice Walker
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Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
- Izaak Walton
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Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.
- Steven Weinberg
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
- H. G. Wells
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
- Walt Whitman
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
- Walt Whitman
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
- Walt Whitman
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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.
- Walt Whitman
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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
- Thornton Wilder
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
- Tennessee Williams
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Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
- Robin Williams
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Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
- William Wordsworth
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.
- Andrew Wyeth
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