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“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

“Through the window I can see Rooks above the cherry-tree, Sparrows in the violet bed, Bramble-bush and bumble-bee, And old red bracken smoulders still Among boulders on the hill, Far too bright to seem quite dead. But old Death, who can't forget, Waits his time and watches yet, Waits and watches by the door.”

Stills I Can Seems Waiting Forget Watches Doors Tree Bed Red Window Hills Bees Violet Cherries Sparrows Boulders Cherry Trees Bumble Bee

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“For years I study. I look long at olive trees, all gray and silver, and watch the sunlight. Ah, yes, I am ver' lazy, but I see after I look long that it is perspective that give it this quality. Perspective, and absolute faith to the subject.”

Giving Years Looks Long Quality Watches Study Tree Subjects Perspective Absolutes Lazy Silver Gray Sunlight Olives Olive Trees

Author:Ugo Mochi

“Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work.”

Earth Stars Watches Sun Growing Tree Movement Creation Planets Activity Ocean Streams Unending Growing Tree

Author:Maria Montessori

“If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A baseball game that's played with no one around to watch it, though - that's a different proposition.”

Ifs Stills Different Fall Games Sound Watches Tree Baseball Woods Propositions Baseball Games

Author:Carson Cistulli

“I was thinking, I could turn him into a fly and drop him into a spider's web and watch him tangled and helpless and struggling, shut into the body of a dying buzzing fly; I could wish him dead until he died.I could fasten him to a tree and keep him there until he grew into the trunk and bark grew over his mouth. if he was under the ground I could walk over him stamping my feet.”

Source: Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches

“I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.”

Looks I Can Animal Watches Tree Woods Fishing Hunts Mushrooms

Author:John D. Voelker

“I think a lot of what is involved in finding a noticer is to watch people and see what fruit people have on the tree. You examine that life and see if it has the kind of fruit you want to produce in your life.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Kind Watches Tree Produce Involved Findings Fruit Noticer

Author:Andy Andrews

“Watch out for trees and traffic. The change is slow, the impact great, yet we miss the one and mistake the other.”

Mistake Watches Tree Missing Impact Traffic

Author:Janet Macunovich