More Quotations
"Play from the soul, not as a trained bird"
"…if you want to move others, one must first be moved oneself"
"Like a great poet, nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means."
"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."
"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."
"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow in to you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn."
"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
"The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind longs to play with your hair.
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"The earth laughs in flowers."
"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."
"Respect the voice of nature in yourself"
"Most people are on the world, not in it.
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"Stop talking and thinking about it and there is nothing you will not be able to know.
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"How the water sports and sings, surely it is alive!
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"Even when the artist departs from nature, he must do it with the conviction that it is only to interpret her more fully.
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"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal."