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#1

“All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest... they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can't be mistaken for one you'd hear anyplace else, a voice true to those particular tress, individual rather than of their species.”
― Charles de Lint, The Onion Girl

tags: forests

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#2

“We are the universe seeking truth.”
― Jay Woodman

tags: seeking, seeking-truth, truth, universal, universal-truths, universe

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#3

“A lion of truth never assumes anything without validity. Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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#4

“...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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#5

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”
― John Muir, The Mountains of California

tags: energy, mountains, nature

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#6

“Separation

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
― W.S. Merwin

tags: influence, loneliness, loss, poetry

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#7

“Like some winter animal the moon licks the salt of your hand,
Yet still your hair foams violet as a lilac tree
From which a small wood-owl calls.”
― Johannes Bobrowski

tags: animal, hair, moon, owl, salt, violet, winter

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#8

“I wish someone had just told me the truth right up front, as soon as I was old enough to understand it. I wish someone had just said: “Here’s the deal, Wade. You’re something called a ‘human being.’ That’s a really smart kind of animal. Like every other animal on this planet, we’re descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago. This happened by a process called evolution, and you’ll learn more about it But trust me, that’s really how we all got here. There’s proof of it everywhere, buried in the rocks. That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. “Oh, and by the way … there’s no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid Deal with it.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

tags: humor, life-philosophy, science

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#9

“Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

tags: life-philosophy

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#10

“To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

tags: buddhism, life-philosophy, phlilosophy, zen-buddhism

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#11

“At night I dream that you and I are two plants
that grew together, roots entwined,
and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth,
since we are made of earth and rain.”
― Pablo Neruda, Regalo de un Poeta

tags: rain-rapa-nui

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#12

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

tags: errant, exploration, exploring, instability, land, legs, mankind, mobility, quotes-from-books, quotes-from-novels, racines, roots, stability, travel-novels, travel-writing, traveling, traveling-alone, travelling, travelogue, travels, trees, vines, voyage, voyages, voyaging, wander, wanderess, wandering, wanderlove, wanderlust

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#13

“Two Trees
A portion of your soul has been
entwined with mine
A gentle kind of togetherness, while
separately we stand.
As two trees deeply rooted in
separate plots of ground,
While their topmost branches
come together,
Forming a miracle of lace
against the heavens.”
― Janet Miles, Images of Women in Transition

tags: love, marriage, trees, wedding

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#14

“You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.”
― Max Ehrmann

tags: trees

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#15

“I’ve often thought of the forest as a living cathedral, but this might diminish what it truly is. If I have understood Koyukon teachings, the forest is not merely an expression or representation of sacredness, nor a place to invoke the sacred; the forest is sacredness itself. Nature is not merely created by God; nature is God. Whoever moves within the forest can partake directly of sacredness, experience sacredness with his entire body, breathe sacredness and contain it within himself, drink the sacred water as a living communion, bury his feet in sacredness, touch the living branch and feel the sacredness, open his eyes and witness the burning beauty of sacredness”
― Richard Nelson, Island Within

tags: beauty-in-nature, nature, sacred-space

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#16

“From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: beauty-in-nature, nature, trees

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#17

“Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

tags: trees

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#18

“As I age in the world it will rise and spread,
and be for this place horizon
and orison, the voice of its winds.
I have made myself a dream to dream
of its rising, that has gentled my nights.
Let me desire and wish well the life
these trees may live when I
no longer rise in the mornings
to be pleased with the green of them
shining, and their shadows on the ground,
and the sound of the wind in them.”
― Wendell Berry

tags: future, hope, transience, trees

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#19

“Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: appreciation, attitude, believe, counting-your-blessings, dance, dancing, faith, faith-in-yourself, gratitude, happiness, happy-life, hope, journey-of-life, live-in-the-moment, living-a-happy-life, living-life-to-the-fullest, love, positive-thinking, seizing-the-day, smile, the-here-and-now, the-present, the-single-woman, trust, wish, your-journey

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#20

“Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.”
― Hakuin

tags: seeking-truth, truth

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#21

“In the end, one detail is unarguable: There will always be those searching for treasure. Never forget: We are a country founded on legends and myths. We love them, especially legends of treasure. Looking for treasure isn't just part of being an American, it is America.”
― Brad Meltzer, History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time

tags: america, american-culture, american-dream, american-history, being-american, conspiracy, conspiracy-theories, conspiracy-theorists, conspiracy-theory, detective-work, dream-big, dreaming, folktales, legendary, legends, mysteries, mystery, myth, seeking-truth, treasure, treasure-hunting

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#22

“We shall either find what we are seeking, or free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.”
― Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine

tags: philosophy, seeking-truth

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#23

“We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign people. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing if higher value than truth itself”
― Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples

tags: seeking-truth, truth, value, worldliness-worldview

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#24

“Write and people will come to read. Write and people will heed to your words and share them with others. Not all may relate, but wait, and those who were meant to see it eventually will find it, for truth waits to be found. It searches for no one.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: read, reading, seeking-truth, truth, write, writer, writing

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#25

“Truth searches for no one. It waits to be found.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: right, seeking-truth, truth, truth-seeker, truth-seekers

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#26

“Featherweight by Suzy Kassem

One evening,
I sat by the ocean and questioned the moon about my destiny.
I revealed to it that I was beginning to feel smaller compared to others,
Because the more secrets of the universe I would unlock,
The smaller in size I became.

I didn't understand why I wasn't feeling larger instead of smaller.
I thought that seeking Truth was what was required of us all –
To show us the way, not to make us feel lost,
Up against the odds,
In a devilish game partitioned by
An invisible wall.

Then the next morning,
A bird appeared at my window, just as the sun began
Spreading its yolk over the horizon.
It remained perched for a long time,
Gazing at me intently, to make sure I knew I wasn’t dreaming.
Then its words gently echoed throughout my mind,
Telling me:

'The world you are in –
Is the true hell.
The journey to Truth itself
Is what quickens the heart to become lighter.
The lighter the heart, the purer it is.
The purer the heart, the closer to light it becomes.
And the heavier the heart,
The more chained to this hell
It will remain.'

And just like that, it flew off towards the sun,
Leaving behind a tiny feather.
So I picked it up,
And fastened it to a toothpick,
To dip into ink
And write my name.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: bird, destiny-quotes, doing-good, dying, falcon, fate, feather, feathers, heart, heaven, hell, ink, journey, journey-to-truth, knowledge, knowlsun, light-heart, moon, name, path-to-knowledge, path-to-light, path-to-truth, pure, seeking-truth, soul, spirit, sun, truth, truth-poetry, truth-quotes, truth-seeker, wisdom

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#27

“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

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#28

“The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before

tags: philosophy

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#29

“To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before

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#30

“The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before

tags: anguish, blame, recovery, responsibility, suffering

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