"Nature was my kindergarten."

William Christopher Handy, American Musician

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"Creatures, I give you yourselves," said the strong, happy voice of Aslan. "I give to you forever this land of Narnia. I give you the woods, the fruits, the rivers. I give you the stars and I give you myself. The Dumb Beasts whom I have not chosen are yours also. Treat them gently and cherish them but do not go back to their ways lest you cease to be Talking Beasts. For out of them you were taken and into them you can return. Do not so."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Nature, Gift, Creation, Respect

"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

Nature, Hell

"If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Nature, Water, Ocean, Impossibility, Limitations

"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Nature, Truth, Happiness, Wisdom, Power

"Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass byBetween shrouds of life and haze sun rays die."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Nature, Loneliness, Freedom, Isolation

"Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of sunbeams. Press the soft blossoms against your cheek, and finger their graces of form, their delicate mutability of shape, their pliancy and freshness. Expose your face to the aerial floods that sweep the heavens, 'inhale great draughts of space,' wonder, wonder at the wind's unwearied activity. Pile note on note the infinite music that flows increasingly to your soul from the tactual sonorities of a thousand branches and tumbling waters. How can the world be shriveled when this most profound, emotional sense, touch, is faithful to its service? I am sure that if a fairy bade me choose between the sense of sight and that of touch, I would not part with the warm, endearing contact of human hands."

Helen Keller, American Author

Nature, Beauty, Wonder, Life

"Speaking of happiness, those distinctive moments are found outdoors " in the fall, in the winter and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Nature, Joy, Peace, Quiet

"Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Nature, Life, Artist, Opinion

"Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word "glory" a meaning for me."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Nature, God, Glory, Meaning

"Water is life sustenance."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Nature, Water, Life, Health

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"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."

"If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty."

"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"

"Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass byBetween shrouds of life and haze sun rays die."

"Speaking of happiness, those distinctive moments are found outdoors " in the fall, in the winter and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet."

"Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature."

"Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word "glory" a meaning for me."

"Water is life sustenance."

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"The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household."

"Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed."

"I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro."

"The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day."

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"Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out."

"Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it."

"You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down."

"I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee."

"Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony."