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The grass is spring green, tall, and full of newborn life, waving
in the breeze.  I can smell its fragrance, and this purely physical
sensation helps me let go of other thoughts and centers me here.

Olga Kharistidi

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I honor the wisdom of life.  I learn from life in all its forms.
The tree teaches me.  The sparrow and the wren sing my song.
I am open to the lessons Life brings me from the earth.
I learn from the wind, from the sun, from the small flowers,
and from the stars.  I walk without arrogance.  I learn from all
I encounter.  I open my mind and heart to the guidance and love
that come to me from the natural world.

Julia Cameron

When I'm out in nature, I feel a stronger sense of gratitude
and awe, and I see more clearly just how beautiful this
world is.  I need that feeling every once in a while if I'm to
keep a clear perspective in my daily life on just what is truly
important and just what isn't.  We nourish our souls when
we get in touch with nature, and our souls are the part
of ourselves that we so often neglect.

tom walsh

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature.  And that is
because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and
therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

Max Planck

All things in nature work silently.  They come into being and possess nothing.
They fulfill their function and make no claim.  All things alike do their work,
and then we see them subside.  When they have reached their bloom,
each returns to its origin. . . . This reversion is an eternal law.
To know that law is wisdom.

Lao-Tzu

If we are in tune with Nature, all her music can find a way into the heart.
When bird music is rare, their occasional songs are precious to the ear.

Frank Bolles

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Jane Austen

I have had more than half a century of such happiness.
A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never
a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris,
a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory.

Mary McLeod Bethune

There is no quiet place in [your] cities, no place to hear
the leaves of spring or the rustle of insects’ wings. . . . The
Indians prefer the soft sound of the wind darting over the face
of the pond, the smell of the wind itself cleansed by a midday
rain, or scented with piñon pine.  The air is precious to the
Indian, for all things share the same breath—the animals,
the trees, the human.  Like a person who has been dying
many days, a person in your city is numb to the stench.

attributed to Chief Seattle

Nature with her wonders blinds and binds one still.  There is no escape.
I love her utterly through all time and times.  All over the world
towns to me are prison; green fields are home.

Marion Cran

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Contemplate the workings of this world.  Study how water flows
in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks.
Everything--even mountains, rivers, plants and
trees--should be your teacher.

Morihei Ueshiba

How can people forever think that Nature lies on the surface!  Of course
it does, in its most superficial aspect.  But those who, in the face of Nature,
are not overwhelmed with awe at its infinite mystery, its divinity (we can
only sense it, not comprehend or penetrate it)--these people have not come
close to it. . . . And in every work of art, which should be a reflection
of Nature, there must be a trace of this infinity.

Gustav Mahler

We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren, and
children yet to be born.  We must protect the forests for those who
can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish, and trees.

Chief Qwatsinas

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself
to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

Victor Hugo

Let us permit nature to have her way:
she understands her business better than we do.

Michel de Montaigne

Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt.  The more one learns,
the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware
of the inscrutable.

Archibald Rutledge

Go forth, under the open sky, and listen to Nature's teachings.

William Cullen Bryant

What has come over our age is an alienation from Nature unexampled
in human history.  It has cost us our sense of reality and all but cost
us our humanity.  With the passing of a relation to Nature worthy of
both Nature and the human spirit, with the slow burning down of the
poetic sense together with the noble sense of religious reverence to
which it is allied, humans have almost ceased to be human.  Torn from
earth and unaware, having neither the inheritance and awareness of
human nor the other sureness and integrity of the animal, we have
become vagrants in space, desperate for the meaninglessness which
has closed about us.  True humanity is no inherent and abstract right
but an achievement, and only through the fullness of human experience
may we be as one with all who have been and all who are yet to be,
sharers and brethren and partakers of the mystery of living, reaching
to the full of human peace and the full of human joy.

Henry Beston

We cage a bird for our own pleasure.  We do not cage the bird for its pleasure.
That is not the highest love for the bird.  The highest love for all things is for
us a literal source of life.  The more things in the world of Nature to which we
can give the higher love, the more of their natural love and life shall we get in
return.  So, as we grow, refine and increase this power of recognizing and
loving the bird, the animal, the insect or, in other words, the Infinite in all
things, we shall receive a love, a renewed life, strength, vigour, cheer and
inspiration from not only these, but the falling snow-flake, the driving rain,
the cloud, the sea, the mountain.  And this will not be a mere sentiment, but
a great means for recuperating and strengthening the body, for this strengthens
the spirit with a strength which comes to stay, and what strengthens the spirit
must strengthen the body.  We cannot make of ourselves this capacity for so
loving and drawing strength from all things.  It is our belonging,
but must be demanded of the Supreme Power.

Prentice Mulford

The only important thing is to follow nature.  A tiger should be a good tiger;
a tree, a good tree.  So people should be people.  But to know what people
are, one must follow nature and go alone, admitting the importance of the
unexpected.  Still, nothing is possible without love. . . . For love puts one in
a mood to risk everything, and not to withhold important elements.

Carl Jung

One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.

William Wordsworth

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Nature is not dumb.  Humanity is dumb when we can't hear or when
we forget how to communicate with nature.  Nature is very much alive.
Intelligent living beings and vibrant energies are all over the planet.

Sun Bear

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of
strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something
infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the assurance
that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

Rachel Carson
Silent Spring

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Humans are the most insane species.  We worship an invisible God and
slaughter a visible Nature. . . without realizing that this Nature
we slaughter is this invisible God we worship.

Hubert Reeves

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through
which God speaks to us every hour, if we will but listen.

George Washington Carver

Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe