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βIt is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of it. Life is long enough and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.β
β Seneca
βThe earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.β
β Chief Seattle
βNature holds the key to our aesthetic intellectual cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.β
β E.O. Wilson
βThe best remedy for those who are afraid lonely or unhappy is to go outside somewhere where they can be quiet alone with the heavens nature and God.β
β Anne Frank
βEven the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.β
β Victor Hugo
βSitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself.β
β Matsuo Basho
βLet the beauty of what you love be what you do.β
β Rumi
βIn wildness is the preservation of the world.β
β Thoreau
βAll my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.β
β Marie Curie
βNature is not a place to visit. It is home.β
β Gary Snyder
βNature made us for the open air and the sunlight.β
β Giacomo Leopardi
βThe world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.β
β E. E. Cummings
βThe ecological crisis is a crisis of character not a crisis of resources.β
β Arne Naess
βNature always wears the colors of the spirit.β
β Ralph Waldo Emerson
βThe earth has music for those who listen.β
β William Shakespeare
βOne cannot think well love well sleep well if one has not dined well.β
β Virginia Woolf
βTwo roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference.β
β Robert Frost
βSomething will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.β
β Wallace Stegner
βThe earth is what we all have in common.β
β Wendell Berry
βWilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.β
β Edward Abbey
βBeauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.β
β Annie Dillard
βThe moon goes down beauty is shut in behind its doors.β
β Tu Fu
βEverything has beauty but not everyone sees it.β
β Confucius
βTo see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.β
β William Blake
βNature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.β
β Lao Tzu
βI go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order.β
β John Burroughs
βTell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.β
β Mary Oliver
βTo live content with small means to seek elegance rather than luxury.β
β Thomas Moore
βThere is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore.β
β Lord Byron
βIf you truly love nature you will find beauty everywhere.β
β Vincent van Gogh
βTell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?β
βThe landscape retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know.β
β Barry Lopez
βThe universe is not a collection of objects but a communion of subjects.β
β Thomas Berry
βNature is a petrified magic city.β
β Novalis
βIf there is magic on this planet it is contained in water.β
β Loren Eiseley
βWhen we plant trees we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.β
β Wangari Maathai
βThe care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy and after all our most pleasing responsibility.β
βThe mountains are calling and I must go.β
β John Muir
βOf all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.β
β Epicurus
βSome say an army of horsemen some an army of foot and some of ships is the fairest thing on the black earth but I say it is what you love.β
β Sappho
βThe clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.β
βDo not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.β
βThe moment one gives close attention to anything even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious awesome indescribably magnificent world in itself.β
β Henry Miller
βNature is the living visible garment of God.β
β Goethe
βStudy nature love nature stay close to nature. It will never fail you.β
β Cicero
βJoy in looking and comprehending is natures most beautiful gift.β
β Konrad Lorenz
βThe poetry of the earth is never dead.β
β John Keats
βA house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.β
β Gaston Bachelard
βTrees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.β
β Kahlil Gibran
βThe snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.β
βTo sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.β
β Jane Austen
βUntil he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things man will not himself find peace.β
β Albert Schweitzer
βWater is the driving force of all nature.β
β Leonardo da Vinci
βDo not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. Remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.β
βIn wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.β
β Ansel Adams
βWe abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we begin to use it with love and respect.β
β Aldo Leopold
βYou are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.β
β Vandana Shiva
βI must have flowers always and always.β
β Claude Monet
βEvery formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.β
β Maria Mitchell
βNo one will protect what they dont care about and no one will care about what they have never experienced.β
β David Attenborough
βAfter you have exhausted what there is in business politics conviviality and so on and found that none of these finally satisfy what remains is nature.β
β Walt Whitman
βThe 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.β
β Galileo Galilei
βThe miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment.β
β Thich Nhat Hanh
βI hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.β
β Nikos Kazantzakis
βOur virtues and our failings are inseparable like force and matter. When they separate man is no more.β
β Nikola Tesla
βThose who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.β
β Rachel Carson
βThe eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.β
β Terry Tempest Williams
βThe moon is the mirror of time.β
β Jorge Luis Borges
βA thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity stability and beauty of the biotic community.β
βIt is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters in the end.β
β Ursula K. Le Guin
βThe world is charged with the grandeur of God.β
β Gerard Manley Hopkins
βLive in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.β
β Henry David Thoreau
βEvery person born into this world their work is born with them.β
β James Russell Lowell
βNo snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.β
β Zen Proverb
βA flower blossoms for its own joy.β
β Oscar Wilde
βThere are years that ask questions and years that answer.β
β Zora Neale Hurston
βOne way to open your eyes is to ask yourself what if I had never seen this before what if I knew I would never see it again.β
βEven after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, you owe me. Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.β
β Hafiz
βTo study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.β
β Dogen
βYou can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.β
β Pablo Neruda
βIn every outward and visible grace of life there is an inward and spiritual grace.β
βNature is not a temple but a workshop and man is the workman in it.β
β Ivan Turgenev
βWalk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.β
βNature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished.β
βGive me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.β
βEven a small window is a wormhole to a world beyond our imagining.β
β Robin Wall Kimmerer
βThe sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.β
β Henry Ward Beecher
βForget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.β
β Khalil Gibran
βI never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.β
β D.H. Lawrence
β BashΕ
βAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.β
β Simone Weil
βLive now believe me wait not till tomorrow. Gather the roses of life today.β
β Pierre de Ronsard
βAnd forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.β
βSmile breathe and go slowly.β
βAll things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.β
β Thomas Browne
βNature does nothing in vain.β
β Baruch Spinoza
βWe sit together the mountain and me until only the mountain remains.β
β Li Bai
βInstructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.β
βIn every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.β
β Theodore Roosevelt
βNow I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.β
βThe mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.β
β Plutarch
βThe world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.β
β Yeats
βWhen one tugs at a single thing in nature he finds it attached to the rest of the world.β
βOnly if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.β
β Jane Goodall
βIn nature nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted bent in weird ways and they are still beautiful.β
β Marcus Tullius Cicero
βThe beauty of the trees the softness of the air the fragrance of the grass speaks to me.β
β Chief Dan George
βEvery leaf speaks bliss to me fluttering from the autumn tree.β
β Emily Bronte
βAn old silent pond a frog jumps into the pond splash silence again.β
βThe earth is weeping and laughing simultaneously.β
β Fyodor Dostoevsky
βI dont want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.β
β Diane Ackerman
βAn early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.β
β David Thoreau
βHeaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.β
βTrees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them whoever knows how to listen to them can learn the truth.β
β Herman Hesse
βFlowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.β
βHeaven and earth and I were produced together and all things and I are one.β
β Zhuangzi
βSet wide the window. Let me drink the day.β
β Edith Wharton
βThe more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense knew we were coming.β
β Freeman Dyson
βEven a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us giving us moments of wonder and joy.β
βThe world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand.β
βIn the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti full of peace and joy but encompassed by all the horrors of the half-lived life.β
β Herman Melville
βI go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.β
βEven after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me. Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.β
βTrees are the earths endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.β
β Rabindranath Tagore
βIn every walk with nature one receives far more than one seeks.β
βWhat you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.β
βThe ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.β
β Masanobu Fukuoka
β George Santayana
βReading about nature is fine but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully he can learn more than what is in books.β
β George Washington Carver
βThe tortoise like other reptiles has an arbitrary stomach as well as lungs and can refrain from eating as well as breathing for a great part of the year.β
β Gilbert White
βIn some Native languages the term for plants translates to those who take care of us.β
βBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.β
βThe only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.β
βApprehend God in all things for God is in all things.β
β Meister Eckhart
βThe richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.β
βI wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.β
βNature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.β
β Pliny the Elder
βEarth provides enough to satisfy every mans needs but not every mans greed.β
β Mahatma Gandhi
βNature never hurries, yet everything is accomplished.β
βIt is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.β
β Nikolai Gogol
βThe cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.β
β Isak Dinesen
βNature is the time-loss country in the whole world.β
β Oswald Chambers
βLook deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.β
β Albert Einstein
βSpring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'β
β Robin Williams
βThe most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.β
β Alexander von Humboldt
βNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world.β
β Margaret Mead
βIf we surrendered to earths intelligence we could rise up rooted like trees.β
β Rainer Maria Rilke
βI dont want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.β
βLook deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.β
β Muir
βThere are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm.β
β Willa Cather
βLive in each season as it passes breathe the air drink the drink taste the fruit and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.β
βThe nitrogen in our DNA the calcium in our teeth the iron in our blood the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars.β
β Carl Sagan
βLet us cultivate our garden.β
β Voltaire
βThe butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.β
βThe universe is not a collection of objects, but a communion of subjects.β
βStudy nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.β
β Frank Lloyd Wright
βThe three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain the sound of wind in a primeval wood and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.β
β Henry Beston
βThe first peace which is the most important is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship their oneness with the universe.β
β Black Elk
βNot until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.β
βKeep your face always toward the sunshine β and shadows will fall behind you.β
βThe cure for anything is salt water: sweat tears or the sea.β
βBeauty and grace are performed whether or not we will sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.β
βEverybody needs beauty as well as bread places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.β
βAll shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.β
β Julian of Norwich
βI have discovered that the wilderness has a mysterious quality of its own.β
β Sigurd Olson
βThe butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.β
βWhere we love is home home that our feet may leave but not our hearts.β
β Oliver Wendell Holmes
βWe are a spectacular splendid manifestation of life.β
β Lewis Thomas
βI love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station through which God speaks to us every hour if we will only tune in.β
βI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life.β
βOnly to the white man was nature a wilderness and only to him was it infested with wild animals and savage people.β
β Luther Standing Bear
βWe abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong we may begin to use it with love and respect.β
βEven a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy.β
βThere is grandeur in this view of life.β
β Charles Darwin
βIt is never too late to be what you might have been.β
β George Eliot
βStart by doing what is necessary then do what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.β
β Saint Francis of Assisi
βIn all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.β
β Aristotle
βIf you want to find the secrets of the universe think in terms of energy frequency and vibration.β
βThe care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.β
βI believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.β
βTo me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.β
β Helen Keller
βColors are the smiles of nature.β
β Leigh Hunt
βIn all chaos there is a cosmos in all disorder a secret order.β
β Carl Jung
βSpring passes and one remembers ones innocence.β
β Yoko Ono
βBetween every two pines there is a doorway to a new world.β
βA thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.β
β Leopold
βThere is nothing like a dream to create the future.β
βThe age of nations is past. The task before us now if we would not perish is to build the earth.β
β Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
βI have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.β
βThe observer when he seems to himself to be observing a stone is really observing the effects of the stone upon himself.β
β Bertrand Russell
βTo make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee. One clover and a bee and revery.β
β Emily Dickinson
βThe flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.β
β Unknown
βIf you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.β
βThe land retains an identity of its own still deeper and more subtle than we can know.β
βNot all those who wander are lost.β
β J.R.R. Tolkien
βNo water, no life. No blue, no green.β
β Sylvia Earle
βReading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, they can learn more than what is in books.β
βCome forth into the light of things let Nature be your teacher.β
β William Wordsworth
βThe greatest wealth is health.β
β Virgil
βOne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.β
βThe earth laughs in flowers.β
βThe first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.β
β Plato
βNature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.β
βIn every outward-reaching effort of life there is a wondrous diversity.β
βBe realistic plan for a miracle.β
β Osho
βWhat you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.β
βNature to be commanded must be obeyed.β
β Francis Bacon
βNo one will protect what they dont care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced.β
βThe tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.β
β Dogen Zenji
βThe world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.β
β Muir of Dinnet
βThe sweetest of all sounds is praise.β
β Xenophon
βAdopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.β
βThe soul is healed by being with children.β
βI do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.β
β Queen Elizabeth I
βWe abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.β
βThe old Lakota was wise. He knew that a mans heart away from nature becomes hard.β
βWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.β
βIt is the people who must save the environment. It is the people who must make their leaders change.β
βDwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see yourself running with them.β
β Marcus Aurelius
βKeep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.β
βAs long as humanity continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings it will never know health or peace.β
β Pythagoras
βThere is no substitute for hard work.β
β Thomas Edison
βThere is no wealth but life.β
β John Ruskin
βThere is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly.β
β Buckminster Fuller
βIf the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is infinite.β
β Aldous Huxley
βThe more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for destruction.β
βIn every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.β
βI felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery air mountains trees people. I thought this is what it is to be happy.β
β Sylvia Plath
βDwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.β
βIn spite of myself the insidious mastery of song betrays me back till the heart of me weeps to belong to the old Sunday evenings at home.β
β Thomas Hardy
βNature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.β
β Blaise Pascal
βWater is the first principle of all things.β
β Thales of Miletus
βIf we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.β
βThere is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one.β
βAdopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.β
β Emerson
βThe least flower with a brimming cup may stand and shade my head from burning sun.β
β Thomas Merton
βGod is one supreme among gods and men not at all like mortals in body or mind.β
β Xenophanes
βA true conservationist is someone who knows that the world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.β
β John James Audubon
βWhere flowers bloom so does hope.β
β Lady Bird Johnson
βLook to this day for it is life the very life of life.β
β Kalidasa
βNature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.β
β Charles Dickens
βThe world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles no matter how long but only by a spiritual journey.β
βThe bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.β
β Harriet Beecher Stowe
βSitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.β
βCome forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher.β
βIn every outward push of the sea is a vast and remarkable patience.β
βThe glory of nature is that it is incomprehensible.β
βI took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am I am I am.β
βAbove all I have been a sentient being a thinking animal on this beautiful planet.β
β Oliver Sacks
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