"The mountains are calling and I must go."
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"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."
"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."
"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."
"There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy."
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind."
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
"Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved."
"Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge."
"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."
"There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice."
"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
"If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment."
"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction."
"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees."
"To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in."
"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home."