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“To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.”

Form Culture Grows Nature Wealth Animal Growing Up Intimate Vegetables Association Irreplaceable

Book:Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years

Source: Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years

“One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out. It is eternally flowing from use to use, beauty to yet higher beauty; and we soon cease to lament waste and death, and rather rejoice and exult in the imperishable, unspendable wealth of the universe.”

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

“Nature with her wealth of birds and flowers, Has in her heart a place for every weed; For her quick eyes require no microscope To note the varied wonders and delights That the Creator's humblest works possess.”

Heart Eye Nature Wealth Wonder Flower Bird Notes Simplicity Delight Creator Weed Microscopes

Author:Kobo Abe

“I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.”

“First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.”

“It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.”

Hands Time Nature Natural Wealth Generations Tasks Environmental Our Time Ecology Our Generation

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

“Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.”

Mind Art Order Nature Wealth Rich Industry Spots Saving Application Get Rich Timeliness

Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson