"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart."
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"Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution."
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"Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion?"
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"The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful."
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"The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World"
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"I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument."
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"I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused."
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"Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body."
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"Of all the animals with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercised more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means which she affords to the relieving these necessities."
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"Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster."
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"Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles."
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"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little."
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"He that plants trees loves others besides himself."
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"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her."
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"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived."
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"As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else."
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"Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind–these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless."
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"The groves were God's first temples."
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"Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men."
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"The sound of water says what I think."
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