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"We belong to no cult. We are not Nature Lovers. We don't love nature any more than we love breathing. Nature is simply something indispensable, like air and light and water, that we accept as necessary to living, and the nearer we can get to it the happier we are."
"A flower is an educated weed."
"Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich."
"A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!"
"We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals."
"In response to criticism of its treatment of killer whales, Sea World said it will build them a larger habitat. When asked for comment, killer whales said, 'Hey, you know what's a larger habitat?' THE OCEAN."
"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
"We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves."
"The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature."
"Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another."
"Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable."
"That is what we must do when we fully know the purposefulness of life - live it gloriously by living it ecstatically. We can live it ecstatically only as we know the ecstatic nature of God and become like Him through being continually inspired by communion with Him. To become like Him, we must become aware of our identity with Him. We must know Him as Creator of all that is, and in so doing know ourselves as creator of all that is."
"He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice."
"People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it."
"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
"The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in rock or tree."
"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."
"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me."
"Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts."
"Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent."
