“But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer. And looking around, I noticed the other small trees and wild plants and grasses had sprung up under the protection of the trees we had placed there.
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere. ~Vincent Van Gogh
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. ~John Berger, The Sense of Sight, 1980
All things share the same breath – the beast, the tree, the man, the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.
I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
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