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“This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.”

Ifs World Years Littles Has Beens Grows Nature Simple Sun This World Thousand Spring Rain Green Thousand Years

Book:Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life

Source: Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life

“Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.”

Years Art Age Nature Fool Thousand Six Idle Thousand Years Mushrooms Antiques

Book:Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books

“Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.”

Men Feels Made Nature Thousand

Book:Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life

Source: Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life

“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.”

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

“Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.”

Nature Modern Talent Health Thousand Unique Scientist Species Combination Dozen Factories Ancestor Improving Mushrooms Identifying Miniatures Pharmaceutical

Author:Paul Stamets

“They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.”

Made Would Be Language Nature Imagination Animal Thousand Ten Speech Tragedy Burden Beast Portions Our Thoughts Disappearance Silencing Beast Of Burden

Book:A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.”

Source: The Illustrated West with the Night

“one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.”

Nature Pleasure Thousand Daffodil

Author:William Wordsworth

“Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.”

Littles Earth Nature Space Animal Thousand Eight Miles Dimensions Spaceships Vastness Thousand Miles Vastness Of Space

Book:Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

“Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.”

Way Mind Stills Self Fall Grows Nature Animal Watches Source Return Thousand Ten Empty Stillness Rise And Fall

Book:Tao Te Ching

Source: Tao Te Ching

“Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life; ... 'So careful of the type', but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go' ... Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law- Tho' Nature red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.”

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