"Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock."
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"This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related."
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"I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done."
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"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own."
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"We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence."
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"For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed."
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"The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine."
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"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."
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"All motion is curved and all curvature is spiral."
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"The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own."
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"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."
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"Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency."
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"Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions."
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"Those who love and free nature are never alone."
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"Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To the place where the sidewalk ends."
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"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."
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"Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth."
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"Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art."
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"Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself."
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"Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine."
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