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“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

“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.”

“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

“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

“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 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

“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.”

“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

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

“It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.”

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Author:Pearl S. Buck

“The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.”

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Author:Nancy Newhall

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

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

“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”

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Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“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.”

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Author:Pearl S. Buck

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

Source: Juvenal and Persius

“He who plants a tree, plants a hope.”

“The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.”

“Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.”

“Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.”

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Book:Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

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

“It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.”

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Book:Emile: Or, On Education

Source: Emile: Or, On Education

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