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Nature,
like a loving mother, is ever trying
to keep land
and sea,
mountain and valley,
each in its place, to hush
the angry
winds
and waves, balance the extremes of heat
and cold,
of rain and drought, that peace,
harmony and beauty may
reign supreme.
Elizabeth
Cady
Stanton
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People are incomprehensible without Nature, and Nature is
incomprehensible
apart from people. For the delicate
loveliness of the flower is as much
in the human eye as
in its own fragile petals, and the splendor
of the
heavens as much in the imagination that kindles at the
touch
of their glory as in the shining of countless
worlds.
Hamilton
Wright
Mabie
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In
those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm
and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness
against
Nature not to go out, and see her riches,
and partake in
her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
John
Milton
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What riches are ours in the world of nature, from
the majesty
of the distant peak to the fragile beauty of a tiny flower,
and all without cost to us, the beholders! No person is poor
who has watched a sunrise or who keeps a mountain in his or her heart.
Esther Baldwin York
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Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower--but if I could understand
What you are, root and all and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
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Old and
new put their stamp on everything in nature. The
snowflake
that is now falling is marked by both; the
present gives the motion
and color to the flakes;
antiquity its form and properties. All things wear
a
luster which is the gift of the present and a tarnish of
time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Nature ne'er
deserts
the wise
and pure;
No plot so narrow,
be but nature
there,
No waste
so vacant,
but
may well employ
Each faculty of
sense
and keep the heart
Awake to love and beauty.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Never does nature say one
thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal
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When the first light dawned on the earth,
and the birds awoke, and
the brave river was heard
rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early
rising
wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people,
having reinforced
their bodies and their souls with sleep,
and cast aside doubt and fear,
were invited to
unattempted adventures.
Henry David Thoreau |
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Earth's
crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries,
And daub their natural faces unaware
More and more from the first similitude.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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I go now
to the wilderness to be a part of it; to accept my place
in the world and its place in me; to grow into reality as
a tree grows
into the rain, to conform to the Earth as a
stream conforms
to the stones of its bed. To live. To
aspire. To be.
William
Ashworth |
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The motion felt by a person in the
presence of nature
certainly counts for something in the
origin of religions.
Henry Bergson |
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The
garden is growth and change and that means loss
as well
as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
May
Sarton |
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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 but listen.
George
Washington Carver |
When we pay attention to nature's music,
we find that
everything on the earth
contributes to its harmony.
Hazrat Inayat Khan |
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Close your eyes. You might try saying. . .
something like this:
"The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling.
Nature is calm and in
control of the world--and I, as nature's child,
am in
tune with the Universe." Or--better still--pray!
Dale Carnegie |
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There
is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which
nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can
imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are,
even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and
lightless
beside her living color; nature exhibits her
hues under an intensity
of sunlight which trebles their
brilliancy.
John Ruskin |
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If you drive nature out with a
pitchfork,
she will soon find a way back.
Horace |
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All of
nature offers lessons on living, free of charge. One
morning I noticed a dead tree supporting many living
things--fungus, vines, lichen--which taught me that even
after death we can continue
to support those who live on.
Living trees on our property teach
other lessons. One
tree has grown around a barbed wire fence. Another has
grown around a nail, and a third through a chain link
fence. These trees teach me how to accept irritation,
absorb
the pain and grow around problems. Nature teaches
me how
to find my place, grow toward the sunlight and
bypass obstacles. To survive, we must be able to change
in response to whatever is required by the challenge of
the moment. Our bodies know this,
but our minds often
rebel when change is necessary.
Bernie S. Siegel |
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Look deep into nature and you will
find the answer to everything.
Albert Einstein |
Nature has given the opportunity of
happiness
to all, knew they but how to use it.
Claudian |
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The
longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and
wonder
of the world. . . I have loved the feel of the grass
under my feet, and
the sound of the running streams by my
side. The hum of the wind in the treetops has always
been good music to me, and the face of the fields
has often
comforted me more than the faces of people.
I am in love with this world. . . I have tilled its
soil, I have gathered
its harvest, I have waited upon its
seasons, and always have I reaped
what I have sown.
I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests,
sailed its waters,
crossed its deserts, felt the sting if its
frosts, the oppression of its heats,
the drench of its rains,
the fury of its winds, and always have beauty
and joy waited
upon my goings and comings.
John
Burroughs |
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Nature
gives to every time and season some beauties of its own;
and from
morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave,
it is but a
succession of changes so gentle and easy
that we can scarcely mark
their progress.
Charles Dickens |
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The
Trees
The
trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.
Is
it that they are born again
And we grow old? No, they die too.
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in rings of grain.
Yet
still the unresting castles thresh
In fullgrown thickness every May.
Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.
Philip
Larkin
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Nature
is the clearest source of
solitude. The greatness of nature
can
overwhelm
the insignificant chatter
by which we measure
most of our
days. If you have the wisdom and
the courage
to go to nature
alone, the larger rhythms,
the eternal hum,
will
make itself known all
the sooner. When you have found it,
it will always
be there for
you. The peace without
will become
the peace within, and
you will be able to return to it in your
heart wherever you find yourself.
Kent Nerburn |
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I
am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough
to go in when it
rains. One may keep snug and dry
by such knowledge, but one
misses a world of loveliness.
Adeline
Knapp |
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I never
knew how soothing trees are--many trees and patches of open
sunlight,
and tree presences; it is almost like
having another being.
D.H.
Lawrence
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The
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.
Because only then does one feel that
all is as it should be and that God wishes to see
people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
As long as this exists, and it certainly always
will, I know that then there will always be comfort
for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.
And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
Anne Frank |
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Climb
the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace
will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The
winds will blow
their own freshness into you, and the
storms their energy,
while cares will drop away from you
like the leaves of Autumn.
John
Muir |
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