"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."

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"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."

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"The Peace of Wild ThingsWhen despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water.And I feel above me the day-blind starswaiting with their light. For a timeI rest in the grace of the world, and am free."

Wendell Berry, American Poet

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"Life in us is like the water in a river."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds, It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to your nevertheless,And filter and fibre your blood.Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,Missing me one place, search another,I stop somewhere waiting for you."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Nature, Life, Mortality, Reflection

"Steam rising underneath a canopy of whispering, changing aspens; starlight in the clear, dark night, and wondrous beauty in every direction. If only all could feel this way, to be so captured and enthralled with autumn."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Nature, Beauty, Awe, Calm

"Every mind should reflect to touch the green of life through trees."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Nature, Mind, Reflection, Life, Trees

"It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened."

Mark Twain, American Author

Nature, Sky, Stars, Wonder

"Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator."

Antonio Gaudi, Spanish Architect

Nature, Laws, Support

"Then the immortal heart of the woods will beat against ours and its subtle life will steal into our veins and make us its own forever, so that no matter where we go or how widely we wander we shall yet be drawn back to the forest to find our most enduring kinship."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Nature, Life, Connection, Peace

"The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond. Flowers and mushrooms alike wore coats of glass. Even the mud puddles had a bright brown sheen. Through the shimmering greenery, the black tents of his brothers were encased in a fine glaze of ice. So there is magic beyond the Wall after all."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

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"Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?"

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."

Man, Talk

"The more we do, the more we can do."

Success, Productivity, Action, Potential, Effort

"We had as lief not be as not be ourselves."

Identity, Self, Truth, Acceptance

"A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being."

Courage, Action, Danger, Fear, Fortitude

"Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice."

Wisdom, Danger, Learning, Discipline, Observation

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

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"No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history."

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"We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them."

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"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."

Friendship, Love, Fool, Hate

"In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates."

Ethics, Prudence, Vanity, Decision, Morality