"There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties"
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"We all flow from one fountain."
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"God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons."
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"The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things."
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"We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love."
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"When one tugs at a single thing in nature; he finds it attached to the rest of the world. Variant - When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. Variant - Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe."
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"I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found."
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"When a man plants a tree, he plants himself."
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"Most people are on the world, not in it."
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"By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life."
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"One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books."
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"We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in the wind, that trees are travelers in the ordinary sense. They make many journeys, not extensive ones, it is true; but our own little journeys, away and back again, are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much."
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"I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention."
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"The last days of this glacial winter are not yet past; we live in 'creation's dawn.' The morning stars still sing together, and the world, though made, is still being made and becoming more beautiful every day."
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"In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts."
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"Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow."
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"Few in these hot, dim, strenuous times are quite sane or free; choked with care like clocks full of dust, laboriously doing so much good and making so much money - or so little, they are no longer good for themselves."
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"I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all I had ever before beheld. They are broad and dense and bright green. In the leafy bowers and caves of their long branches dwell magnificent avenues of shade, and every tree seems to be blessed with a double portion of strong exulting life."
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"We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way."
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"None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat and sedimentary sermon after climbing a snowy peak; and the fair play and tremendous impartiality of Nature, so tellingly displayed, will surely affect the after pleadings of the lawyer. Fresh air at least will get into everybody, and the cares of mere business will be quenched like the fires of a sinking ship."
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