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Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common everyday beauty.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. There is not a "fragment" in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), John of the Mountains, 1938
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Our National Parks, 1901
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Atlantic Monthly, January 1869
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), John of the Mountains, 1938
The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Travels in Alaska by John Muir, 1915, chapter 1
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.: Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.: Lorraine Anderson
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.: Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
In nature there are neither rewards or punishments - there are consequences.: Robert Green Ingersoll
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.: Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
I'm terribly sorry, but nature is not always family friendly.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Seeing wildlife is like seeing celebrities, only better.: Tanja Andrews, Freshtopia, 08-19-06
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, Scene i, Lines 15-17
Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Nature does require her times of preservation.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VIII, Act III, sc. 2
Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Tempest, Act V, sc. 1
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.: Zeno (335 BC - 264 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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