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    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: ecstasy, happiness, nature
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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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    Vincent van Gogh
    “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: art, nature, poetry, suicide
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
    tags: kiss, love, nature
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  • #6
    John Muir
    “The mountains are calling and I must go.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: nature
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  • #7
    William Shakespeare
    “I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: as-you-like-it, celia, nature, poetry
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  • #8
    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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  • #9
    Margaret Atwood
    “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg
    tags: nature, spring
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  • #10
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: nature, outdoors
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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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  • #12
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
    ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    tags: beauty, canyons, carvings, nature, perseverance, suffering, windstorms
    1563 likes

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  • #13
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
    tags: deep-thoughts, humans, love, maggie-stiefvater, nature, the-raven-boys, trees
    1457 likes

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  • #14
    Aldo Leopold
    “I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
    ― Aldo Leopold
    tags: environment, nature, wilderness
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: nature
    1526 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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  • #17
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
    "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
    tags: beauty, children, classic, nature, spring
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  • #18
    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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    Christopher Paolini
    “The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: nature, ocean
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    John Muir
    “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity”
    ― John Muir, Our National Parks
    tags: hiking, mountains, nature, wilderness
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  • #21
    John Keats
    “The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: environment, nature, poetry
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  • #22
    Robinson Jeffers
    “The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me
    Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.”
    ― Robinson Jeffers
    tags: nature, poetry, the-continent-s-end
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  • #23
    C. JoyBell C.
    “You will manage to keep a woman in love with you, only for as long as you can keep her in love with the person she becomes when she is with you.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: about-the-nature-of-women, about-women, advice-for-men, being-in-love, life-and-living, nature, nature-of-the-woman, the-love-of-a-woman, women, women-and-love, women-in-love
    971 likes

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    Emily Dickinson
    “Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: art, haunted, house, nature
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    John Muir
    “The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: nature
    951 likes

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  • #26
    Ingrid Bergman
    “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
    ― Ingrid Bergman
    tags: kiss, love, nature, trick, words
    816 likes

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    John Donne
    “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

    [The Autumnal]”
    ― John Donne, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
    tags: autumn, beauty, dreamy, literal, nature
    865 likes

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  • #28
    Winston S. Churchill
    “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: appeasement, human, humor, nature, politics
    834 likes

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  • #29
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: ecology, inspirational-quotes, nature, trees
    817 likes

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  • #30
    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
    819 likes



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