There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
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.
Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet.
Nature never hurries. Atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.
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Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.
The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.
It was for the best, so Nature had no choice but to do it.
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.
Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither good or bad, and who knows neither love nor hatred.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, That all with one consent praise new-born gauds, Though they are made and moulded of things past, And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. The present eye praises the present object.
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
Nature hates calculators.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective store?
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Family, nature and health all go together.
Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
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Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Colors are the smiles of nature.
We must return to nature and nature's god.
All art is but imitation of nature.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
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However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God means to do with me as in these hours of dawn.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
