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