"We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us."
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"I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder."
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"When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty."
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"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."
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"It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed."
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"And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been"
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"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings."
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"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature."
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"This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls."
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"Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains."
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"On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . ."
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"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
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"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."
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"Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying."
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"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."
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"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
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"Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace."
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"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder."
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"Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come."
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"Watch nature, because it is your greatest teacher. It moves and flows and moves on again. There is an incredible beauty out there in the mountains, in the forests, to teach you it's silence, it's beauty, it's humility. Stay aligned to that."
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