John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty."
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John Muir
Naturalist, Writer
"As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can"."
Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately."
Walt Whitman
Poet, Essayist
"Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour."
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"The voice of the sea speaks to the soul."
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"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
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"Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills."
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"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in."
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"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
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"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul."
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"one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few."
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"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt."
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"I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this."
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"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn."
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"Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity."
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"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man."
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"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."
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"The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell."
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"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."
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"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."
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"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
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"Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God."
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"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
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"God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools."
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