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• Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Trying, Doe, Hardship

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• This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Spring, Rain, Simple

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.209

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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

  Garden, Earth Day, Survival

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• On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

  Jules Renard

  Heaven, Pieces, Earth

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• Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

  Hal Borland

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Countryman: A Summary of Belief". Book by Hal Borland, 1965.

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• I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

  E. B. White

  Time, Fall, Optimistic

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• Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

  Jimmy Carter

  Love, Art, Design

  Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.10, University of Arkansas Press

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• Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

  Isaac Newton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Simplicity

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• Now 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.

  Walt Whitman

  Sleep, Air, Hiking

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.

  Aldo Leopold

  Taken, Sunset, Opportunity

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Uplifting, Wisdom, Fabric Of Life

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.66, Princeton University Press

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• People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.

  Jane Goodall

  Book, People, Peaceful

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• Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Law, Judging

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: A Meeting with Medusa”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

  Joseph Addison

  Doe, Purpose

  "Cato, A Tragedy". Play by Joseph Addison, 1713.

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• Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspiration, Principles, Building

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Break

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

  Toni Morrison

  Life, Death, Garden

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike.

  John Ruskin

  Sea, Two, Tree

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.55

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• Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Stars

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• Man's Place in Nature.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Men

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• The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.

  William Wordsworth

  Sound, Growing, Grass

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.85

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• Nature hates calculators.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Calculators

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.99, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Believe, Ignorance, Hype

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• There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

  John Keats

  Fire, Heroism, Literature

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.37

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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

  Anniversary, Spring, Men

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.82, Oxford University Press

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