"What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me."
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"Nature hath no goal though she hath law."
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"Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each tree in the seed, each song in the life laid down - is the night sky any less strange; should my glance less follow the flight; should the pen shake less in my hand."
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"The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent"
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"Nature did all things well"
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"The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes."
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"A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining. It is born of sensitive and very personal preferences yet its appeal is almost universal."
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"If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a naturaland vital thing."
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"Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late."
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"Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!"
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"The notion that we would condition Iran not getting nuclear weapons in a verifiable deal on Iran recognizing Israel is really akin to saying that we won't sign a deal unless the nature of the Iranian regime completely transforms. And that is, I think, a fundamental misjudgment."
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"If your mind is still... You can sense the peace that emanates from the earth."
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"The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace."
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"Take God from nature, nothing great is left."
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"Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!"
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"Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes."
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"Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself."
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"Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end."
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"Nature delights in progress; in advance."
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"Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one."
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