Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the
storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
--John Muir
You can't just let nature run wild.
--Wally Hickel former governor of Alaska
Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to
follow the natural paths of the earth, and strong enough
to rise up and reshape the world.
--Brenda Peterson
Nature knows no pause in progress and development,
and attaches her curse on all inaction.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our understandings are always liable to error
Nature and certainty are very hard to come at,
and infallibility is mere vanity and pretense
--Marcus Antoninus
There is a wonderful law of nature that the three things
we crave most- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind-
are always attained by giving them to someone else.
--Anonymous
Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature.
--Gerard De Nerval
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging
at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
--Elbert Hubbard
I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African,
endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size
so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
--Miriam Makeba
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils,
light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand,
the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars,
but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that
daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent.
Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river
which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity
will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.
--Henry David Thoreau upon the death of his brother
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
--Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896)
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature will bear the closest inspection.
She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,
and take an insect view of its plain.
--Henry David Thoreau Naturalist and author (1817-1862)
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
--Oscar Wilde
Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans,
as it were, on so support; and the sweetest support is
found in the most intimate friendship
--Marcus Tullius Cicero
The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced,
until we have only one: to fight for survival.
--Morris K. Udall
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment
is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with
dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the
most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not
only in the world that must support life but in living tissues
is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal
contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister
and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the
very nature of the world--the very nature of its life.
--Rachel Carson 1962
Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.
--Karen Savage and Patricia Adams The Good Stepmother
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
--Albert Einstein (03/14/1879-1955)
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them
--A. A. Milne Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh
Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by
actual experience the school of life, by ceaseless alertness
to learn from others, by study the activities of men who have
made notable marks, by striving to analyze the everyday play
of causes and effects, by constant study of human nature
--B. C. Forbes
Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness;
when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The more we are separated from nature, the unhappier we get.
--Unknown
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
--Arthur C. Clarke
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings
and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity,
as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams
of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed,
and as beautiful as life.
--John Muir
If you poison the environment,the environment will poison you.
--Tony Follari Comedian and Artist here in New Zealand
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