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“Nature is our friend - trees, squirrels, grass, fields, meadows, oceans - without people. Hike. Walk. Stroll. Bike. Swim. Be in a still place and feel eternity. Have a great time. Just feel it.”

People Feels Stills Nature Walks Tree Fields Buddhism Ocean Eternity Grass Swim Bike Great Times Meadows Squirrels

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature.”

Men Stills Nature Fellows Fellow Man One With Nature Small Is Beautiful

Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In the ascending line of development she tries an experiment once exceedingly thorough, and then the question is solved for all time. For she always takes time enough to try the experiment exhaustively. It took ages to find how to build a spinal column or brain, but when the experiment was finished she had reason to be, and was, satisfied.”

“We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.”

Art Stills Nature Pleasant

Book:The Works: In Six Volumes

Source: The Works: In Six Volumes

“I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It's a question of picking out what one wants from nature.”

Want Stills Sometimes Whole Nature Subjects Contrary Making Changes Whole Picture

Book:Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard

Source: Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard

“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.”

“Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation, still just an external foundation, of things.”

Want Stills States Nature Emotional Inspire Foundation Painter Abstract Urges

Author:Piet Mondrian

“The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it. …So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.”

Should Stills Ends Fighting Nature Watches Tree Strive Noble Glad Forests Wilderness Bats Can Not

Author:John Muir

“I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.”

World Made Stills Together Beautiful Used Father Stars Nature Race Half Beauty Morning Creation Fields Plant Envy Contact Dawn Dwelling Eden

Book:Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada

Source: Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada

“The still, sad music of humanity.”

Stills Humanity Nature Music Prelude Hearing Music Sad Music

Author:John Greenleaf Whittier

“One felt that the mountains are not completed. The builders are still at work. Stones come rolling and jumping from the upper scaffolding and often from the chasms one hears the thundering as the gods of the mountains change their minds.”

Mind Stills Felt Nature Mountain Stones Rolling Jumping Builder Chasms Scaffolding

Author:J. E. H. MacDonald