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“In nature nothing exists alone.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.”
― Rachel Carson

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”
― Rachel Carson

“The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.”
― Rachel Carson

“The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.”
― Rachel Carson

“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.”
― 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

“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
― Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder

“Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity, compounded with an unconscious recognition of his lineage. He could not physically re-enter the ocean as the seals and whales had done. But over the centuries, with all the skill and ingenuity and reasoning powers of his mind, he has sought to explore and investigate even its most remote parts, so that he might re-enter it mentally and imaginatively.”
― Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us

“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.”
― Rachel Carson

“We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.”
― John Muir, The Mountains of California

“Wander a whole summer if you can...time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.”
― John Muir

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”
― John Muir

“And into the woods I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.”
― John Muir

“Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.”
― John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

“Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.”
― John Muir, Travels in Alaska

“Who has not felt the urge to throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea in an old sack and jump over the back fence?”
― John Muir

“Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.”
― John Muir, John Muir Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures ... Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
― John Muir

“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”
― John Muir

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
― John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
― John Muir

“The sun shines not on us but in us.”
― John Muir

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
― John Muir

“As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".”
― John Muir

“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”
― John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
― John Muir

“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”
― John Muir

“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”
― John Muir

“Going to the mountains is going home.”
― John Muir