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Use what talent you possess-the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view.

Until we end our violence against the earth- a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of military violence is ignored by most conservationists-how can we hope to end our violence against each other? The earth, which we all have in common, is our deepest bond, and our behavior toward it cannot help but be an earnest of our consideration for each other and for our descendants.

I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.

That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Aim for the stars and you'll make it to the moon. Aim for the moon and you'll never make it through the atmosphere.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.".

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.