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β€œThe 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€” Carl Sagan

#nature#stars#elements

β€œColors are the smiles of nature.”

β€” Leigh Hunt

#color#nature#beauty

β€œOne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

β€” William Shakespeare

#nature#kinship#unity

β€œWalk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”

β€” Thich Nhat Hanh

#nature#mindfulness#walking

β€œLook deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.”

β€” Albert Einstein

#nature#understanding#depth

β€œNo one will protect what they dont care about and no one will care about what they have never experienced.”

β€” David Attenborough

#nature#experience#conservation

β€œCome forth into the light of things let nature be your teacher.”

β€” William Wordsworth

#nature#learning#light

β€œTrees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”

β€” Kahlil Gibran

#nature#trees#poetry

β€œI wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”

β€” Hafiz

#nature#light#being

β€œWe 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€” Aldo Leopold

#nature#land#respect

β€œEven the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

β€” Victor Hugo

#nature#hope#perseverance

β€œThe 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€” Gilbert White

#nature#animals#adaptation

β€œNo water, no life. No blue, no green.”

β€” Sylvia Earle

#nature#ocean#water

β€œIt is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters in the end.”

β€” Ursula K. Le Guin

#nature#journey#destination

β€œIn wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”

β€” Ansel Adams

#nature#exploration#experience

β€œLet us cultivate our garden.”

β€” Voltaire

#nature#garden#cultivation

β€œInstructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”

β€” Mary Oliver

#nature#attention#wonder

β€œAn old silent pond a frog jumps into the pond splash silence again.”

β€” Matsuo Basho

#nature#stillness#zen

β€œIn every outward push of the sea is a vast and remarkable patience.”

β€” Rachel Carson

#nature#ocean#patience

β€œTo live content with small means to seek elegance rather than luxury.”

β€” Thomas Moore

#nature#contentment#simplicity

β€œStudy nature love nature stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

β€” Frank Lloyd Wright

#nature#study#faithfulness

β€œNot all those who wander are lost.”

β€” J.R.R. Tolkien

#nature#wandering#exploration

β€œOnly if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.”

β€” Jane Goodall

#nature#understanding#caring

β€œNature is the living visible garment of God.”

β€” Goethe

#nature#divine#garment

β€œStart by doing what is necessary then do what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

β€” Saint Francis of Assisi

#nature#possibility#progress

β€œThe old Lakota was wise. He knew that a mans heart away from nature becomes hard.”

β€” Luther Standing Bear

#nature#heart#wisdom

β€œA thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.”

β€” Leopold

#nature#ethics#community

β€œEvery formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”

β€” Maria Mitchell

#nature#science#praise

β€œIf we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.”

β€” Rainer Maria Rilke

#nature#trees#wisdom

β€œSpring passes and one remembers ones innocence.”

β€” Yoko Ono

#nature#spring#innocence

β€œThe poetry of the earth is never dead.”

β€” John Keats

#nature#poetry#earth

β€œThere is grandeur in this view of life.”

β€” Charles Darwin

#nature#grandeur#evolution

β€œIf you want to find the secrets of the universe think in terms of energy frequency and vibration.”

β€” Nikola Tesla

#nature#energy#vibration

β€œThose who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”

β€” Rachel Carson

#nature#beauty#strength

β€œIn nature nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted bent in weird ways and they are still beautiful.”

β€” Marcus Tullius Cicero

#nature#imperfection#beauty

β€œNature is not a place to visit. It is home.”

β€” Gary Snyder

#nature#home#belonging

β€œI took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am I am I am.”

β€” Sylvia Plath

#nature#breath#existence

β€œA house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.”

β€” Gaston Bachelard

#nature#space#experience

β€œNature is a petrified magic city.”

β€” Novalis

#nature#magic#wonder

β€œI go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”

β€” John Burroughs

#nature#healing#senses

β€œThe age of nations is past. The task before us now if we would not perish is to build the earth.”

β€” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#nature#unity#building

β€œThe land retains an identity of its own still deeper and more subtle than we can know.”

β€” Barry Lopez

#nature#land#identity

β€œOnly to the white man was nature a wilderness and only to him was it infested with wild animals and savage people.”

β€” Luther Standing Bear

#nature#indigenous#perspective

β€œIn every walk with nature one receives far more than one seeks.”

β€” Ansel Adams

#nature#walking#abundance

β€œTo make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee. One clover and a bee and revery.”

β€” Emily Dickinson

#nature#prairie#simplicity

β€œThe landscape retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know.”

β€” Barry Lopez

#nature#landscape#mystery

β€œThe mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

β€” Plutarch

#nature#mind#fire

β€œHeaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

β€” Henry David Thoreau

#nature#heaven#earth

β€œWater is the driving force of all nature.”

β€” Leonardo da Vinci

#nature#water#force

β€œStudy nature love nature stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

β€” Cicero

#nature#study#loyalty

β€œThe least flower with a brimming cup may stand and shade my head from burning sun.”

β€” Thomas Merton

#nature#flowers#shelter

β€œNature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.”

β€” Charles Dickens

#nature#seasons#beauty

β€œWilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.”

β€” Edward Abbey

#nature#wilderness#necessity

β€œThe world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles no matter how long but only by a spiritual journey.”

β€” Wendell Berry

#nature#journey#spirit

β€œThe eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.”

β€” Terry Tempest Williams

#nature#future#vision

β€œIn all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

β€” Aristotle

#nature#marvel#wonder

β€œIt is never too late to be what you might have been.”

β€” George Eliot

#nature#potential#renewal

β€œI 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€” D.H. Lawrence

#nature#resilience#wildness

β€œThe universe is not a collection of objects, but a communion of subjects.”

β€” Thomas Berry

#nature#universe#connection

β€œThe flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”

β€” Unknown

#nature#adversity#resilience

β€œLet the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

β€” Rumi

#nature#beauty#purpose

β€œIt 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€” Seneca

#nature#time#wisdom

β€œNature always wears the colors of the spirit.”

β€” Ralph Waldo Emerson

#nature#spirit#colors

β€œEven a small window is a wormhole to a world beyond our imagining.”

β€” Robin Wall Kimmerer

#nature#window#world

β€œThe observer when he seems to himself to be observing a stone is really observing the effects of the stone upon himself.”

β€” Bertrand Russell

#nature#observation#perception

β€œEven a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us giving us moments of wonder and joy.”

β€” Robin Wall Kimmerer

#nature#wounded world#gratitude

β€œNo one will protect what they dont care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced.”

β€” David Attenborough

#nature#experience#conservation

β€œThe 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€” Freeman Dyson

#nature#universe#design

β€œThe 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€” Anne Frank

#nature#solitude#remedy

β€œWe 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€” Aldo Leopold

#nature#land#community

β€œThe snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”

β€” Lao Tzu

#nature#authenticity#self

β€œReading 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€” George Washington Carver

#nature#learning#woods

β€œI go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order.”

β€” John Burroughs

#nature#healing#senses

β€œTrees are the earths endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

β€” Rabindranath Tagore

#nature#trees#communication

β€œEverybody 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€” Muir

#nature#beauty#bread

β€œA true conservationist is someone who knows that the world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.”

β€” John James Audubon

#nature#conservation#legacy

β€œNature holds the key to our aesthetic intellectual cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”

β€” E.O. Wilson

#nature#satisfaction#key

β€œTo me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”

β€” Helen Keller

#nature#grass#luxury

β€œDwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see yourself running with them.”

β€” Marcus Aurelius

#nature#stars#beauty

β€œNature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.”

β€” Pliny the Elder

#nature#small creatures#wonder

β€œThe care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy and after all our most pleasing responsibility.”

β€” Wendell Berry

#nature#responsibility#stewardship

β€œIn every outward-reaching effort of life there is a wondrous diversity.”

β€” Rachel Carson

#nature#diversity#wonder

β€œBeauty and grace are performed whether or not we will sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.”

β€” Annie Dillard

#nature#beauty#presence

β€œThe mountains are calling and I must go.”

β€” John Muir

#nature#mountains#calling

β€œIf the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is infinite.”

β€” Aldous Huxley

#nature#perception#infinity

β€œI do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.”

β€” Queen Elizabeth I

#nature#authenticity#love

β€œEvery leaf speaks bliss to me fluttering from the autumn tree.”

β€” Emily Bronte

#nature#autumn#bliss

β€œWhen we plant trees we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.”

β€” Wangari Maathai

#nature#trees#peace

β€œKeep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.”

β€” Vincent van Gogh

#nature#art#understanding

β€œIf we surrendered to earths intelligence we could rise up rooted like trees.”

β€” Rainer Maria Rilke

#nature#surrender#rootedness

β€œNo snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.”

β€” Zen Proverb

#nature#snowflake#perfection

β€œSitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.”

β€” Matsuo Basho

#nature#stillness#spring

β€œYou can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”

β€” Pablo Neruda

#nature#resilience#spring

β€œI felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery air mountains trees people. I thought this is what it is to be happy.”

β€” Sylvia Plath

#nature#happiness#breathing

β€œAll things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”

β€” Thomas Browne

#nature#art#divine

β€œIn some Native languages the term for plants translates to those who take care of us.”

β€” Robin Wall Kimmerer

#nature#plants#caretakers

β€œStudy nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

β€” Frank Lloyd Wright

#nature#love#trust

β€œThe earth is what we all have in common.”

β€” Wendell Berry

#nature#earth#unity

β€œIn every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.”

β€” John Muir

#nature#walking#gifts

β€œUntil he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things man will not himself find peace.”

β€” Albert Schweitzer

#nature#compassion#peace

β€œThere is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore.”

β€” Lord Byron

#nature#solitude#pleasure

β€œAs long as humanity continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings it will never know health or peace.”

β€” Pythagoras

#nature#harmony#peace

β€œGod is one supreme among gods and men not at all like mortals in body or mind.”

β€” Xenophanes

#nature#divine#supreme

β€œThe cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.”

β€” Isak Dinesen

#nature#ocean#healing

β€œTwo roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference.”

β€” Robert Frost

#nature#roads#choice

β€œIn every outward and visible grace of life there is an inward and spiritual grace.”

β€” Rachel Carson

#nature#grace#spirit

β€œIn wildness is the preservation of the world.”

β€” Henry David Thoreau

#nature#wildness#preservation

β€œIn all chaos there is a cosmos in all disorder a secret order.”

β€” Carl Jung

#nature#chaos#order

β€œTo study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.”

β€” Dogen Zenji

#nature#self#enlightenment

β€œOne 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€” Rachel Carson

#nature#eyes#wonder

β€œOf all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”

β€” Epicurus

#nature#friendship#happiness

β€œTo 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€” William Blake

#nature#infinity#wonder

β€œThe clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.”

β€” John Muir

#nature#forest#universe

β€œThe bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

β€” Harriet Beecher Stowe

#nature#regret#action

β€œThe first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.”

β€” Plato

#nature#self-mastery#victory

β€œThe beauty of the trees the softness of the air the fragrance of the grass speaks to me.”

β€” Chief Dan George

#nature#beauty#senses

β€œThere is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly.”

β€” Buckminster Fuller

#nature#transformation#butterfly

β€œFlowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.”

β€” Henry Ward Beecher

#nature#flowers#sweetness

β€œI hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”

β€” Nikos Kazantzakis

#nature#freedom#acceptance

β€œAdopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.”

β€” Emerson

#nature#pace#patience

β€œApprehend God in all things for God is in all things.”

β€” Meister Eckhart

#nature#divinity#awareness

β€œThere is no substitute for hard work.”

β€” Thomas Edison

#nature#work#effort

β€œLive 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€” Henry David Thoreau

#nature#seasons#surrender

β€œThe earth has music for those who listen.”

β€” George Santayana

#nature#music#listening

β€œIt is the people who must save the environment. It is the people who must make their leaders change.”

β€” Wangari Maathai

#nature#activism#change

β€œYou are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”

β€” Vandana Shiva

#nature#earth#humility

β€œThe sweetest of all sounds is praise.”

β€” Xenophon

#nature#praise#sound

β€œThe earth is weeping and laughing simultaneously.”

β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

#nature#duality#emotion

β€œThe ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”

β€” Masanobu Fukuoka

#nature#farming#growth

β€œSome 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€” Sappho

#nature#love#beauty

β€œGive me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.”

β€” Walt Whitman

#nature#garden#morning

β€œIn every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

β€” Theodore Roosevelt

#nature#walking#abundance

β€œI 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€” George Washington Carver

#nature#broadcasting#divine

β€œTell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.”

β€” Mary Oliver

#nature#life#purpose

β€œI must have flowers always and always.”

β€” Claude Monet

#nature#flowers#necessity

β€œI 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€” Diane Ackerman

#nature#life#fullness

β€œEarth provides enough to satisfy every mans needs but not every mans greed.”

β€” Mahatma Gandhi

#nature#earth#sufficiency

β€œDwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

β€” Marcus Aurelius

#nature#beauty#stars

β€œI 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€” Diane Ackerman

#nature#life#width

β€œI have discovered that the wilderness has a mysterious quality of its own.”

β€” Sigurd Olson

#nature#wilderness#mystery

β€œThere are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm.”

β€” Willa Cather

#nature#calm#storm

β€œThe universe is not a collection of objects but a communion of subjects.”

β€” Thomas Berry

#nature#connection#communion

β€œThe earth laughs in flowers.”

β€” Ralph Waldo Emerson

#nature#flowers#joy

β€œNature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

β€” Lao Tzu

#patience#nature#accomplishment

β€œWhen one tugs at a single thing in nature he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

β€” John Muir

#nature#interconnection#web

β€œIf you truly love nature you will find beauty everywhere.”

β€” Vincent van Gogh

#nature#love#beauty

β€œWhere we love is home home that our feet may leave but not our hearts.”

β€” Oliver Wendell Holmes

#nature#home#love

β€œI believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.”

β€” Walt Whitman

#nature#grass#cosmos

β€œThe ecological crisis is a crisis of character not a crisis of resources.”

β€” Arne Naess

#nature#ecology#character

β€œEven 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€” Hafiz

#nature#sun#generosity

β€œReading 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€” George Washington Carver

#nature#learning#experience

β€œThe world is charged with the grandeur of God.”

β€” Gerard Manley Hopkins

#nature#grandeur#divinity

β€œThe sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.”

β€” Henry Ward Beecher

#nature#sun#generosity

β€œSmile breathe and go slowly.”

β€” Thich Nhat Hanh

#nature#mindfulness#slowness

β€œLook to this day for it is life the very life of life.”

β€” Kalidasa

#nature#present#life

β€œThe moon is the mirror of time.”

β€” Jorge Luis Borges

#nature#moon#time

β€œEvery person born into this world their work is born with them.”

β€” James Russell Lowell

#nature#purpose#birth

β€œThe care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.”

β€” Wendell Berry

#nature#earth#responsibility

β€œAbove all I have been a sentient being a thinking animal on this beautiful planet.”

β€” Oliver Sacks

#nature#sentience#planet

β€œWe are a spectacular splendid manifestation of life.”

β€” Lewis Thomas

#nature#life#wonder

β€œDo not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.”

β€” Matsuo Basho

#nature#wisdom#seeking

β€œIf you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”

β€” Vincent van Gogh

#nature#beauty#love

β€œOne cannot think well love well sleep well if one has not dined well.”

β€” Virginia Woolf

#nature#nourishment#wellbeing

β€œThe world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”

β€” Muir of Dinnet

#nature#exploration#urgency

β€œThe 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€” Rachel Carson

#nature#attention#peace

β€œNature is the time-loss country in the whole world.”

β€” Oswald Chambers

#nature#timelessness#escape

β€œI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life.”

β€” Henry David Thoreau

#nature#woods#deliberate

β€œSitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself.”

β€” Bashō

#nature#spring#stillness

β€œThere are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

β€” Zora Neale Hurston

#nature#seasons#questions

β€œThe earth has music for those who listen.”

β€” William Shakespeare

#nature#listening#beauty

β€œWater is the first principle of all things.”

β€” Thales of Miletus

#nature#water#origin

β€œTell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

β€” Mary Oliver

#nature#life#purpose

β€œDo 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€” Epicurus

#nature#gratitude#contentment

β€œNature does nothing in vain.”

β€” Baruch Spinoza

#nature#purpose#philosophy

β€œNature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished.”

β€” Lao Tzu

#nature#patience#accomplishment

β€œThe earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.”

β€” Chief Seattle

#nature#belonging#earth

β€œSitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself.”

β€” Matsuo Basho

#nature#stillness#spring

β€œAll shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”

β€” Julian of Norwich

#nature#trust#wellbeing

β€œThere is no wealth but life.”

β€” John Ruskin

#nature#life#wealth

β€œNature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”

β€” Blaise Pascal

#nature#infinity#geometry

β€œIn 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€” Herman Melville

#nature#soul#peace

β€œThe butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.”

β€” Rabindranath Tagore

#nature#butterfly#moments

β€œNature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”

β€” E.O. Wilson

#nature#satisfaction#wholeness

β€œSpring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'”

β€” Robin Williams

#nature#spring#joy

β€œThe 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€” Henry Beston

#nature#sounds#elements

β€œThe most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.”

β€” Alexander von Humboldt

#nature#travel#perspective

β€œWe sit together the mountain and me until only the mountain remains.”

β€” Li Bai

#nature#meditation#mountain

β€œTo sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”

β€” Jane Austen

#nature#rest#simplicity

β€œThe world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”

β€” Yeats

#nature#magic#senses

β€œThe miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment.”

β€” Thich Nhat Hanh

#nature#miracle#presence

β€œBetween every two pines there is a doorway to a new world.”

β€” John Muir

#nature#trees#discovery

β€œThe moon goes down beauty is shut in behind its doors.”

β€” Tu Fu

#nature#moon#beauty

β€œSet wide the window. Let me drink the day.”

β€” Edith Wharton

#nature#openness#daylight

β€œThe moment one gives close attention to anything even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious awesome indescribably magnificent world in itself.”

β€” Henry Miller

#nature#attention#magnificence

β€œNot until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

β€” Henry David Thoreau

#nature#self-discovery#wilderness

β€œIt is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.”

β€” Nikolai Gogol

#nature#self-reflection#truth

β€œAfter 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€” Walt Whitman

#nature#fulfillment#wisdom

β€œNature made us for the open air and the sunlight.”

β€” Giacomo Leopardi

#nature#outdoors#purpose

β€œI have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.”

β€” Voltaire

#nature#happiness#health

β€œThe cure for anything is salt water: sweat tears or the sea.”

β€” Isak Dinesen

#nature#sea#healing

β€œHeaven and earth and I were produced together and all things and I are one.”

β€” Zhuangzi

#nature#oneness#unity

β€œThe tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.”

β€” William Blake

#perception#nature#beauty

β€œNature to be commanded must be obeyed.”

β€” Francis Bacon

#nature#obedience#command

β€œWhat you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

β€” Jane Goodall

#nature#action#responsibility

β€œThe 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€” Black Elk

#nature#peace#oneness

β€œNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world.”

β€” Margaret Mead

#nature#community#change

β€œForget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

β€” Khalil Gibran

#nature#connection#joy

β€œThe greatest wealth is health.”

β€” Virgil

#nature#health#wealth

β€œThe glory of nature is that it is incomprehensible.”

β€” Freeman Dyson

#nature#mystery#glory

β€œKeep your face always toward the sunshine β€” and shadows will fall behind you.”

β€” Walt Whitman

#nature#sunshine#optimism

β€œEverything has beauty but not everyone sees it.”

β€” Confucius

#nature#beauty#perception

β€œNature is not a temple but a workshop and man is the workman in it.”

β€” Ivan Turgenev

#nature#workshop#work

β€œTo study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.”

β€” Dogen

#nature#self#enlightenment

β€œJoy in looking and comprehending is natures most beautiful gift.”

β€” Konrad Lorenz

#nature#joy#comprehension

β€œAdopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

β€” Ralph Waldo Emerson

#nature#patience#wisdom

β€œA flower blossoms for its own joy.”

β€” Oscar Wilde

#nature#flower#joy

β€œLook deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

β€” Albert Einstein

#nature#understanding#science

β€œThe 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€” Galileo Galilei

#nature#sun#attention

β€œEven 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€” Hafiz

#nature#love#generosity

β€œAll my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.”

β€” Marie Curie

#nature#wonder#joy

β€œThe soul is healed by being with children.”

β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

#nature#children#healing

β€œSomething will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.”

β€” Wallace Stegner

#nature#wilderness#preservation

β€œThere is nothing like a dream to create the future.”

β€” Victor Hugo

#nature#dreams#future

β€œAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

β€” Simone Weil

#nature#attention#generosity

β€œThe butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

β€” Rabindranath Tagore

#nature#time#moments

β€œIn every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

β€” John Muir

#nature#walking#receiving

β€œA thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity stability and beauty of the biotic community.”

β€” Aldo Leopold

#nature#ethics#community

β€œLive in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.”

β€” Henry David Thoreau

#nature#seasons#presence

β€œNature never hurries, yet everything is accomplished.”

β€” Lao Tzu

#nature#patience#wisdom

β€œBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”

β€” Muir

#nature#trees#discovery

β€œThe world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”

β€” E. E. Cummings

#nature#playfulness#spring

β€œAn early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”

β€” David Thoreau

#nature#morning#walking

β€œThe world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand.”

β€” Annie Dillard

#nature#generosity#abundance

β€œAnd forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

β€” Kahlil Gibran

#nature#joy#connection

β€œOur virtues and our failings are inseparable like force and matter. When they separate man is no more.”

β€” Nikola Tesla

#nature#duality#wholeness

β€œEven a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy.”

β€” Robin Wall Kimmerer

#nature#gratitude#wonder

β€œWhat you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

β€” Jane Goodall

#nature#action#choice

β€œLive now believe me wait not till tomorrow. Gather the roses of life today.”

β€” Pierre de Ronsard

#nature#roses#seizing

β€œBeauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.”

β€” Annie Dillard

#nature#beauty#presence

β€œTrees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them whoever knows how to listen to them can learn the truth.”

β€” Herman Hesse

#nature#trees#truth

β€œIf there is magic on this planet it is contained in water.”

β€” Loren Eiseley

#nature#water#wonder

β€œWhere flowers bloom so does hope.”

β€” Lady Bird Johnson

#nature#flowers#hope

β€œBe realistic plan for a miracle.”

β€” Osho

#nature#miracles#planning

β€œWe abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.”

β€” Aldo Leopold

#nature#land#ethics

β€œIn wildness is the preservation of the world.”

β€” Thoreau

#nature#wildness#preservation

β€œThere is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one.”

β€” Charles Darwin

#nature#evolution#grandeur

β€œCome forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher.”

β€” William Wordsworth

#nature#learning#light

β€œThe only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.”

β€” Ursula K. Le Guin

#nature#uncertainty#life

β€œWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.”

β€” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#nature#spiritual#human

β€œNow 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€” Walt Whitman

#nature#growth#earth

β€œBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”

β€” John Muir

#nature#pines#doorway

β€œTrees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”

β€” Khalil Gibran

#nature#trees#poetry

β€œThe richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”

β€” Claude Monet

#nature#inspiration#art

β€œIn 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€” Thomas Hardy

#nature#nostalgia#belonging

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