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πΏ Nature
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
βNature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished.β
β Lao Tzu
βNature is the living visible garment of God.β
β Goethe
βWalk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.β
β Thich Nhat Hanh
βOne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.β
β William Shakespeare
βThe universe is not a collection of objects, but a communion of subjects.β
β Thomas Berry
βThe first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.β
β Plato
βIn wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.β
β Ansel Adams
βInstructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.β
β Mary Oliver
βThe moon goes down beauty is shut in behind its doors.β
β Tu Fu
βNature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.β
β Pliny the Elder
βThe least flower with a brimming cup may stand and shade my head from burning sun.β
β Thomas Merton
βI wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.β
β Hafiz
βWilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.β
β Edward Abbey
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
βNature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.β
β Blaise Pascal
βSmile breathe and go slowly.β
βNature is not a temple but a workshop and man is the workman in it.β
β Ivan Turgenev
βStudy nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.β
β Frank Lloyd Wright
βThe earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.β
β Chief Seattle
βIn all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.β
β Aristotle
βThe moon is the mirror of time.β
β Jorge Luis Borges
βThe universe is not a collection of objects but a communion of subjects.β
βI must have flowers always and always.β
β Claude Monet
βThe snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.β
βThe world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles no matter how long but only by a spiritual journey.β
β Wendell Berry
βI hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.β
β Nikos Kazantzakis
βWhat you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.β
β Jane Goodall
βThe earth has music for those who listen.β
βForget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.β
β Khalil Gibran
βNature never hurries, yet everything is accomplished.β
βStart by doing what is necessary then do what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.β
β Saint Francis of Assisi
βThere are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm.β
β Willa Cather
βKeep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.β
β Vincent van Gogh
βIf you truly love nature you will find beauty everywhere.β
βThe care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.β
βLook deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.β
β Albert Einstein
βThe landscape retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know.β
β Barry Lopez
βA flower blossoms for its own joy.β
β Oscar Wilde
βNature made us for the open air and the sunlight.β
β Giacomo Leopardi
βLive in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.β
β Henry David Thoreau
βBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.β
β Muir
βNature always wears the colors of the spirit.β
β Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
β Rachel Carson
βNature is a petrified magic city.β
β Novalis
βAll my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.β
β Marie Curie
βIn every outward-reaching effort of life there is a wondrous diversity.β
βNature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.β
β Charles Dickens
βWhat you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.β
βWe sit together the mountain and me until only the mountain remains.β
β Li Bai
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
βLive now believe me wait not till tomorrow. Gather the roses of life today.β
β Pierre de Ronsard
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
βThe only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.β
β Ursula K. Le Guin
βTell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?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
βWe abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.β
β Aldo Leopold
βThe mountains are calling and I must go.β
β John Muir
βSet wide the window. Let me drink the day.β
β Edith Wharton
βLook deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.β
βThe poetry of the earth is never dead.β
β John Keats
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
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
βIt is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.β
β Nikolai Gogol
βThere is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one.β
β Charles Darwin
βThe earth is weeping and laughing simultaneously.β
β Fyodor Dostoevsky
βJoy in looking and comprehending is natures most beautiful gift.β
β Konrad Lorenz
βOne cannot think well love well sleep well if one has not dined well.β
β Virginia Woolf
βA house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.β
β Gaston Bachelard
βNature does nothing in vain.β
β Baruch Spinoza
βThe greatest wealth is health.β
β Virgil
βThose who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.β
βNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world.β
β Margaret Mead
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 William Blake
βThe world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.β
β E. E. Cummings
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
βThere is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly.β
β Buckminster Fuller
βNature to be commanded must be obeyed.β
β Francis Bacon
βThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.β
βIn every outward push of the sea is a vast and remarkable patience.β
βAn early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.β
β David Thoreau
βNature holds the key to our aesthetic intellectual cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.β
β E.O. Wilson
βNo one will protect what they dont care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced.β
β David Attenborough
βEvery leaf speaks bliss to me fluttering from the autumn tree.β
β Emily Bronte
βThe earth is what we all have in common.β
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
βOf all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.β
β Epicurus
βThe care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy and after all our most pleasing responsibility.β
βIn every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.β
β Theodore Roosevelt
βThe beauty of the trees the softness of the air the fragrance of the grass speaks to me.β
β Chief Dan George
βNature is the time-loss country in the whole world.β
β Oswald Chambers
βWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.β
βThe world is charged with the grandeur of God.β
β Gerard Manley Hopkins
βTrees are the earths endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.β
β Rabindranath Tagore
βNature is not a place to visit. It is home.β
β Gary Snyder
βCome forth into the light of things let nature be your teacher.β
β William Wordsworth
βI go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order.β
β John Burroughs
βA thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.β
β Leopold
βIn wildness is the preservation of the world.β
βI go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.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
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
βAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.β
β Simone Weil
βWater is the driving force of all nature.β
β Leonardo da Vinci
βFlowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.β
β Henry Ward Beecher
βThe most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.β
β Alexander von Humboldt
βThe soul is healed by being with children.β
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 Zenji
βA thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity stability and beauty of the biotic community.β
βTo sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.β
β Jane Austen
βSpring passes and one remembers ones innocence.β
β Yoko Ono
βIn all chaos there is a cosmos in all disorder a secret order.β
β Carl Jung
βStudy nature love nature stay close to nature. It will never fail you.β
β Cicero
βIf you want to find the secrets of the universe think in terms of energy frequency and vibration.β
β Nikola Tesla
βThe cure for anything is salt water: sweat tears or the sea.β
β Isak Dinesen
βEvery person born into this world their work is born with them.β
β James Russell Lowell
βI believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.β
β Walt Whitman
βNature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.β
βIn every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.β
βIt is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters in the end.β
βAll things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.β
β Thomas Browne
βNo one will protect what they dont care about and no one will care about what they have never experienced.β
βNature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.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
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
βBeauty and grace are performed whether or not we will sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.β
β Annie Dillard
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
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
βIt is never too late to be what you might have been.β
β George Eliot
βHeaven and earth and I were produced together and all things and I are one.β
β Zhuangzi
βSitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself.β
β BashΕ
βThe land retains an identity of its own still deeper and more subtle than we can know.β
βOnly if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.β
βNo snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.β
β Zen Proverb
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
βAbove all I have been a sentient being a thinking animal on this beautiful planet.β
β Oliver Sacks
βLet the beauty of what you love be what you do.β
β Rumi
βI have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.β
β Voltaire
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
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
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
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
βEven a small window is a wormhole to a world beyond our imagining.β
β Robin Wall Kimmerer
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
βThere is nothing like a dream to create the future.β
β Victor Hugo
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
βColors are the smiles of nature.β
β Leigh Hunt
βI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life.β
βTo live content with small means to seek elegance rather than luxury.β
β Thomas Moore
βYou can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.β
β Pablo Neruda
βThe cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.β
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
βBetween every two pines there is a doorway to a new world.β
βEven a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us giving us moments of wonder and joy.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
βThe world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand.β
βIn some Native languages the term for plants translates to those who take care of us.β
βThere is grandeur in this view of life.β
βIt is the people who must save the environment. It is the people who must make their leaders change.β
β Wangari Maathai
βOur virtues and our failings are inseparable like force and matter. When they separate man is no 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
βThe bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.β
β Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
βThe flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.β
β Unknown
βThe butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.β
βWhen we plant trees we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.β
βTell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.β
βSomething will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.β
β Wallace Stegner
βThe ecological crisis is a crisis of character not a crisis of resources.β
β Arne Naess
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
β George Santayana
βThere is no wealth but life.β
β John Ruskin
βIf there is magic on this planet it is contained in water.β
β Loren Eiseley
βWater is the first principle of all things.β
β Thales of Miletus
βBeauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.β
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
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
βThe ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.β
β Masanobu Fukuoka
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
βNo water, no life. No blue, no green.β
β Sylvia Earle
βThe richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.β
βTrees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.β
β Kahlil Gibran
βAdopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.β
β Emerson
βThere is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore.β
β Lord Byron
βIn every outward and visible grace of life there is an inward and spiritual grace.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
βEverything has beauty but not everyone sees it.β
β Confucius
βIf we surrendered to earths intelligence we could rise up rooted like trees.β
β Rainer Maria Rilke
βGive me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.β
βNot all those who wander are lost.β
β J.R.R. Tolkien
βEven a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy.β
βCome forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher.β
βKeep your face always toward the sunshine β and shadows will fall behind you.β
βThe mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.β
β Plutarch
βThere are years that ask questions and years that answer.β
β Zora Neale Hurston
βAll shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.β
β Julian of Norwich
βThe glory of nature is that it is incomprehensible.β
βAn old silent pond a frog jumps into the pond splash silence again.β
β Matsuo Basho
βHeaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.β
βGod is one supreme among gods and men not at all like mortals in body or mind.β
β Xenophanes
βAnd forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.β
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
βBe realistic plan for a miracle.β
β Osho
βLook to this day for it is life the very life of life.β
β Kalidasa
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
βThe earth laughs in flowers.β
βDwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.β
β Marcus Aurelius
βLet us cultivate our garden.β
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
βEven the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.β
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
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
βUntil he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things man will not himself find peace.β
β Albert Schweitzer
βIf the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is infinite.β
β Aldous Huxley
βWhere flowers bloom so does hope.β
β Lady Bird Johnson
βSpring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'β
β Robin Williams
βAdopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.β
βDwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see yourself running with them.β
β Thoreau
βThere is no substitute for hard work.β
β Thomas Edison
βThe old Lakota was wise. He knew that a mans heart away from nature becomes hard.β
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 world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.β
β Muir of Dinnet
βWhere we love is home home that our feet may leave but not our hearts.β
β Oliver Wendell Holmes
βI took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am I am I am.β
βWhen one tugs at a single thing in nature he finds it attached to the rest of the world.β
βThe world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.β
β Yeats
βIf we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.β
βDo not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.β
βNot until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.β
βEvery formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.β
β Maria Mitchell
βThe sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.β
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
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
βIn every walk with nature one receives far more than one seeks.β
βThe miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment.β
βI have discovered that the wilderness has a mysterious quality of its own.β
β Sigurd Olson
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
βApprehend God in all things for God is in all things.β
β Meister Eckhart
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
βEarth provides enough to satisfy every mans needs but not every mans greed.β
β Mahatma Gandhi
β Dogen
βIf you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.β
βThe butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.β
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 sweetest of all sounds is praise.β
β Xenophon
βSitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.β
βWe are a spectacular splendid manifestation of life.β
β Lewis Thomas
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