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• As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".

  John Muir

  Heart, Garden, Rocks

  John Muir (1999). “To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875”

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• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed”

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  There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

  Lord Byron

  Lonely, Travel, Being Alone

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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• It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

  David Attenborough

  Beauty, Earth Day, Intellectual

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• For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Travel, Ocean, Fighting

  Statement by the Minister for Agriculture, Sharon Dijksma, at the opening of the Global Oceans Action Summit for Food Security and Blue Growth, www.government.nl. April 22, 2014.

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• The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Secret

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Men

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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

  Life, Strength, Beauty

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.814, Library of America

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• Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Glory, Screens

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• I have a room all to myself; it is nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rooms

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.172, Yale University Press

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• Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

  Seneca the Younger

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• After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies, and principles...
  Nature runs on sunlight.
  Nature uses only the energy it needs.
  Nature fits form to function.
  Nature recycles everything.
  Nature rewards cooperation.
  Nature banks on diversity.
  Nature demands local expertise.
  Nature curbs excesses from within.
  Nature taps the power of limits.

  Janine Benyus

  Running, Law, Diversity

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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

  Beauty, Mother, Peace

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1887). “History of Woman Suffrage”

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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

  Heart, Greatness, Solitude

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.56, New World Library

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• Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.

  Sarah Kay

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

  Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

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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

  Love, God, Fall

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• The magic begins in you. Feel your own energy, and realize similar energy exists within the Earth, stones, plants, water, wind, fire, colores, and animals.

  Scott Cunningham

  Animal, Wind, Fire

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• Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Inspirational, Animal, Silence

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• An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...

  David Attenborough

  Earth Day, Understanding, Curiosity

  "The Sum of You: Teach Yourself" by Alan Graham, Hachette UK, (p. 13), October 29, 2010.

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• It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Sky, Done

  "Modern Painters".

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• I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Flower, Blooming, Blossoming

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.133, eBookIt.com

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• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  God, Atheist, Believe

  Quote magazine, August 14, 1966.

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• Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

  Mary Webb

  Silence, Music Is, Jumping To Conclusions

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• Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

  Robert Frost

  Hiking, Hints

  "Lives of the Poets: The Story of One Thousand Years of English and American Poetry". Book by Louis Untermeyer, 1959.

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