Quotes

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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

– Albert Einstein (German Theoretical Physicist)

 

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

– Zeno of Citium (Greek Philosopher)

 

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When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

– Wendell Berry, “The Peace of Wild Things” (American essayist, academic, & farmer)

 

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 Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.

– Standing Bear (Ponca Native American chief)

 

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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, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

– John Muir (American naturalist)

 

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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

– John Muir (American naturalist)

 

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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

– Juvenal (Roman poet)

 

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I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order.

– John Burroughs  (American writer & naturalist)