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“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

“The good man is the friend of all living things.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”

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

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...”

“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”

“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.”

“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”

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Book:The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature

Source: The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.”

“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.”

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”

“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”

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

Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.”

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Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?”

“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.”

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Author:Wendell Berry

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

“To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.”

“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

Source: Poems

“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.”

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Book:The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”

“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”

Source: Selected poems

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

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

“You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.”

“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”

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Book:John Muir's Last Journey: South To The Amazon And East To Africa: Unpublished Journals And Selected Correspondence

Source: John Muir's Last Journey: South To The Amazon And East To Africa: Unpublished Journals And Selected Correspondence

“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.”

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”

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

“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.”

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“He that plants trees loves others besides himself.”

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Author:Thomas Fuller

“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.”

“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

“Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.”

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Book:The Birds of Tanglewood

Source: The Birds of Tanglewood

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

“The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.”

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Author:Lady Bird Johnson

“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.”

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.”

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Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity.”

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Author:Fujio Cho

“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”

Source: Juvenal and Persius

“The earth is what we all have in common.”

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.”