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“Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.”

Writing Hands Seems Nature Pens Sheer

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing.”

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Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.”

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Author:Martin Luther

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.”

Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.”

Writing Wells Art Nature Wise Chiefs Masterpiece Writing Well

Author:Andre Breton

“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”

Writing Earth Nature Tree Sky

Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own version of knowledge, we have been unreceptive to the wisdom of the natural world. To tune in again, to have the "spontaneous environmental rapport" that characterized our ancestors, will take doing something that is perfectly delightful: reimmersing ourselves in the natural world.”

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Author:Janine Benyus

“My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. How can it be that writing down a few simple and elegant formulae, like short poems governed by strict rules such as those of the sonnet or the waka, can predict universal regularities of Nature?”

“April, like a child, Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers, Wipes them away and forgets.”

Writing Children Nature Forget Flower Dust April Wipe

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.”

Writing Values Nature Company Tree Garden Breakfast Dine

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not a special, unique gift of human beings, marking us off from the rest of nature.”

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Author:Lewis Thomas