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“In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.”

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Author:John Fowles

“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.”

Source: The Diary of Anne Frank

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

“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.”

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Author:Aristotle

“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.”

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.”

Source: The Yosemite

“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

“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.”

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

Source: Bluebeard's Egg

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

“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”

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Book:Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son

Source: Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son

“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”

Source: Mansfield Park

“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”

Source: Desert Solitaire

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”

“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.”

“Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.”

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”

“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.”

“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.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“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

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”

Source: A Fairly Honourable Defeat

“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”

“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.”

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”

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

Source: Poems

“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.”

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”

“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”

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

“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

“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

“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. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”

Source: The diary of a young girl

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”

“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.”

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“The earth has music for those who listen.”

“If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.”

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Author:Vincent Van Gogh

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

Source: Monet: a retrospective