"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
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"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."
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"The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind."
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"The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."
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"How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!"
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"Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand."
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"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."
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"There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult."
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"There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations."
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"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature."
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"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit."
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"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."
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"The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures."
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"Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in."
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"To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."
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"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."
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"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."
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"In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it."
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"Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile."
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"I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
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