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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Carl Sagan
    “Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: metaphysics, philosophy, science, sense-of-wonder, spirituality
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
    tags: atheism, religion, science
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    H.G. Wells
    “Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
    tags: human-nature, intelligence, science
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    Carl Sagan
    “The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: atoms, beauty, cosmos, philosophy, science, universe
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    Max Planck
    “Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”
    ― Max Planck, Where Is Science Going?
    tags: mystery, nature, science
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    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: animals, caring, earth, forests, nature, plants, trees, wilderness
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    Lewis Carroll
    “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: appreciation, nature, seasons, snow, winter
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    Lord Byron
    “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”
    ― Lord Byron
    tags: nature, poetry, solitude
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    George Carlin
    “I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: grass, hero, heroism, individualism, individuality, nature
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    Rachel Carson
    “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
    ― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
    tags: inspiration, nature
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
    tags: environment, exploration, explore, land, mysterious, mystery, nature, sea, unexplorable, unfathomable, wild, wilderness, wildness
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    Albert Einstein
    “Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    William Blake
    “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: imagination, inspiration, nature, trees
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: earth, heaven, heavenly, nature
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    E.B. White
    “I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”
    ― E. B. White, Letters of E. B. White
    tags: nature
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    “I Go Down To The Shore

    I go down to the shore in the morning
    and depending on the hour the waves
    are rolling in or moving out,
    and I say, oh, I am miserable,
    what shall—
    what should I do? And the sea says
    in its lovely voice:
    Excuse me, I have work to do.”
    ― Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
    tags: nature, poetry
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    Aristotle
    “Nature does nothing uselessly.”
    ― Aristotle, Politics
    tags: nature
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Child of God
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    “I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.”
    ― Bjork
    tags: alone, bjork, loneliness, nature, orgy
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
    tags: free-will, life, nature, pain, suffering
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: antipathy, drama, green, literature, nature, poetry, writing
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    Gretel Ehrlich
    “Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.”
    ― Gretel Ehrlich
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    William Wordsworth
    “For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.”
    ― William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
    tags: humanity, nature, poetry
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    John Burroughs
    “I am in love with this world... I have tilled its soil, I have gathered its harvest, I have waited upon its seasons, and always have I reaped what I have sown. I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings.”
    ― John Burroughs, The Summit of the Years
    tags: nature
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    Annie Dillard
    “It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.”
    ― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
    tags: books, literature, nature, reading, words
    78 likes

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    Frank Lloyd Wright
    “Nature is my manifestation of God.
    I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.”
    ― Frank Lloyd Wright
    tags: nature
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    Lorraine Anderson
    “Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.”
    ― Lorraine Anderson
    tags: nature
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    Lord Byron
    “The stars are forth, the moon above the tops
    Of the snow-shining mountains.—Beautiful!
    I linger yet with Nature, for the night
    Hath been to me a more familiar face
    Than that of man; and in her starry shade
    Of dim and solitary loveliness,
    I learn'd the language of another world.”
    ― George Gordon Byron, Manfred
    tags: nature, night, poetry
    70 likes



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