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Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”

“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”

Source: The Art of Seeing Things: Essays

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”

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Author:Wallace Stegner

“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 away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”

“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.”

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.”

“To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.”

“Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.”

“The 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.”

Source: Silent Spring

“When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.”

Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom

“The sun shines not on us but in us.”

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Book:John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.”

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Book:Round River

Source: Round River

“The earth has music for those who listen.”

“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”

Source: Monet: a retrospective

“It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.”

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Author:Rachel Carson

“If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.”

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Author:Chief Seattle

“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.”

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Book:Round River

Source: Round River

“The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.”

“I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”

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Author:Langston Hughes

“If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.”

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Author:Luther Burbank

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

Source: Time and change

“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.”

Source: The writings of John Burroughs

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . .”

Source: The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.”

“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”

“The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.”

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Book:Chief Seattle's Testimony

Source: Chief Seattle's Testimony

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”

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Author:Chief Seattle

“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.”

“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”

Source: An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections

“Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.”

“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.”

“There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.”

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Book:African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist

Source: African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist

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