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...Some see Nature
all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But
to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself.
- William Blake, 1799, The Letters
Art is
man’s nature. Nature is God’s
art. - Philip James Bailey
The 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.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes
to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. ~Anne Frank
"In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a
natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of
the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I
hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or
anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great
loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on
it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it." ~ Teddy
Roosevelt
"Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the
actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which
compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a
better land for our descendants than it is for us." ~ Teddy Roosevelt
"I recognize the right and duty of
this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do
not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the
generations that come after us." ~ Teddy Roosevelt
The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration. ~Claude
Monet
"We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources. But the
time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone,
when the coal, the iron, the oil, and the gas are exhausted, when the soils have
still further impoverished and washed into the streams, polluting the rivers,
denuding the fields and obstructing navigation." ~ Teddy Roosevelt
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
The winds will blow their own freshness into you...
while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
Let children walk with Nature,
let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their
joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains
and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless
indeed, and as beautiful as life. ~ John Muir
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her
suggestions. ~Antoinette Brown Blackwell
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected
by a pebble. ~Blaise Pascal
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the
circumference nowhere. ~Blaise Pascal
My best Acquaintances are those
With Whom I spoke no Word—
The Stars that stated come to Town
Esteemed Me never rude
Although to their Celestial Call
I failed to make reply—
My constant—reverential Face
Sufficient Courtesy. ~Emily Dickinson
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church,
I keep it staying at Home -
With a bobolink for a Chorister,
And an Orchard, for a Dome. ~Emily Dickinson
When we understand that man is
the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral
nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of
an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to
experience his own being. ~Ernest Becker
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. ~Frank
Lloyd Wright
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can
still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
~Galileo
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level
with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. ~ Henry David
Thoreau
If a man walks in the woods for
love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making
the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising
citizen. ~Henry David Thoreau
I was determined to know beans. On Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau
To me a lush carpet of pine
needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
~Helen Keller
... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate,
and comic in its existence. ~ George Santayana
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. ~ James Russell Lowell
There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. ~John
Steinbeck
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
~Joseph Wood Krutch
The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day. ~Kenneth Patton
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. ~Linda
Hogan
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. ~Mohandas
K. Gandhi
Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the
rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an
extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however
crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a
complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.
~Murray Gell-Mann
On every stem, on every leaf ... and at the root of everything that grew, was a
professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other
expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part. ~Oliver Wendell
Holmes
I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed
new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good
to know our universe. What is new is only new to us. ~Pearl S. Buck
Trees are the earth's endless
effort to speak to the listening heaven. ~Rabindranath Tagore
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that
will endure as long as life lasts. ~Rachel Carson
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. ~Rachel Carson
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of
the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson
Only within the moment of time
represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired
significant power to alter the nature of his world. ~Rachel Carson
“Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most
insidious.” - Robert Lacey &
Danny Danziger, The Year 1000, What life was like at the turn of the
first millennium
Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one
hidden stuff. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did
the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but
the laying-out of gardens. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an
exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all
this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ~Ralph Waldo
Emerson
A flower is an educated weed.
~Luther Burbank
Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf. ~Toni
Morrison
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. ~Walt
Whitman
One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is
the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in
its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race. ~Wendell Berry
The goal of life is living in
agreement with nature. ~Zeno
To see a world in a grain of
sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
An eternity in an hour. ~William Blake
I heard a thousand blended notes
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
To her fair works did Nature
link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What Man has made of Man.
~ William Wordsworth, written
in early spring
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