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Andy Goldsworthy on nature
Author: Andy Goldsworthy“Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There’s something very powerful about finding snow in summer.” -Andy Goldsworthy
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Norman MacCaig on nature
Author: Norman MacCaig“I’m very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.” -Norman MacCaig
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Aldo Leopold on nature
Author: Aldo Leopold“In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries no man can ignore all of them.” -Aldo Leopold
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Georges Simenon on nature
Author: Georges Simenon“The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.” -Georges Simenon
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Annie Dillard on nature
Author: Annie Dillard“There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.” -Annie Dillard
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William Ellery Channing on nature
Author: William Ellery Channing“The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.” -William Ellery Channing
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Jean Giraudoux on nature
Author: Jean Giraudoux“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.” -Jean Giraudoux
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John Fowles on nature
Author: John Fowles“In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.” -John Fowles
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Don DeLillo on nature
Author: Don DeLillo“There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.” -Don DeLillo
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Sara Teasdale on nature
Author: Sara Teasdale“Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children’s faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.” -Sara Teasdale
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Mao Zedong on nature
Author: Mao Zedong“Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.” -Mao Zedong
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Gerard Manley Hopkins on nature
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins“Nothing is so beautiful as spring – when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.” -Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Iris Murdoch on nature
Author: Iris Murdoch“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” -Iris Murdoch
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Cyril Connolly on nature
Author: Cyril Connolly“It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.” -Cyril Connolly
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Diane Ackerman on nature
Author: Diane Ackerman“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.” -Diane Ackerman
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Joseph Conrad on nature
Author: Joseph Conrad“Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.” -Joseph Conrad
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Sandra Day O’Connor on nature
Author: Sandra Day O’Connor“Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.” -Sandra Day O’Connor
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on nature
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.” -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Geraldo Rivera on nature
Author: Geraldo Rivera“Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she’s going to come around and whack you. You’ve got to be prepared.” -Geraldo Rivera
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Saint Basil on nature
Author: Saint Basil“Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.” -Saint Basil
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Willa Cather on nature
Author: Willa Cather“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.” -Willa Cather
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Ruth Bernhard on nature
Author: Ruth Bernhard“The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations – each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.” -Ruth Bernhard
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Jean Paul on nature
Author: Jean Paul“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.” -Jean Paul
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Roger Tory Peterson on nature
Author: Roger Tory Peterson“Birds have wings they’re free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.” -Roger Tory Peterson
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Rupert Brooke on nature
Author: Rupert Brooke“Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.” -Rupert Brooke