"Above all I have been a sentient being a thinking..." - Oliver Sacks

🌿 Nature

“Above all I have been a sentient being a thinking animal on this beautiful planet.”

Sacks celebrates the experience of being a conscious creature on earth.

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“I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.”

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“Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation and every act of creation is full of wonder”

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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”

— Pablo Neruda

“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.”

— Wendell Berry

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

— John Muir

“We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.”

— Li Bai

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

— Emerson

“The earth laughs in flowers.”

— Emerson