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"Eliminate mental muddiness and obscurity; keep your mind crystal clear. Allow your pure original insight to emerge. Quiet your emotions and abide in serenity. Don't go crazy with the worship of idols, images, and ideas; this is like putting a new head on top of the head you already have. Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear."
"There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October."
"Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit."
"Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning."
"Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor."
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars."
"Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men."
"But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings."
"My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature."
"Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it."
"To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain."
"I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak."
"This world has many rings, like Saturn, and we live now on the outmost of them all. None can say deliberately that he inhabits thesame sphere, or is contemporary, with the flower which his hands have plucked, and though his feet may seem to crush it, inconceivable spaces and ages separate them, and perchance there is no danger that he will hurt it."
"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."
"There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure."
"The unnatural, that too is natural."
"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
"I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains."
"As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others."
"Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves."
