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“If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.”
― Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

tags: man, nature

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“Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one.”
― Wei Wu Wei

113 likes

“Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: beauty, beauty-in-literature, beauty-in-nature, wodehouse

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“How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.”
― Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

tags: birth, life, living, time

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“The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The poison affects us all. No one escapes. Therefore let us be happy while we are happy. Let us be kind, generous, affectionate and good. It is necessary and not at all shameful to take pleasure in the little world.”
― Ingmar Bergman

tags: fanny-and-alexander

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