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  • #1
    Ram Dass
    “It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”
    Ram Dass

  • #2
    Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
    “Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
    Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, A Life For A Life

  • #3
    Maya Angelou
    “A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #4
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #5
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #6
    Maya Angelou
    “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
    Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

  • #7
    Charles de Lint
    “I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don't want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic.”
    Charles de Lint

  • #8
    John Muir
    “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

  • #9
    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    John Muir

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    John Muir
    “The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
    John Muir

  • #12
    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

  • #13
    John Muir
    “On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights.”
    John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf: The American Naturalist's 1867 Journey Through the Post-War South

  • #14
    John Muir
    “Everybody needs beauty...places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.”
    John Muir

  • #15
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

  • #16
    Henry David Thoreau
    “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #17
    Henry David Thoreau
    “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
    Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

  • #18
    “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”
    Henry Stanley Haskins, Meditations in Wall Street

  • #19
    Henry David Thoreau
    “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #20
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #21
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #22
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings

  • #23
    Henry David Thoreau
    “All good things are wild and free.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #24
    Henry David Thoreau
    “The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #25
    Henry David Thoreau
    “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #26
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #27
    John Burroughs
    “To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”
    John Burroughs, Leaf and Tendril

  • #28
    John Burroughs
    “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”
    John Burroughs

  • #29
    John Burroughs
    “A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
    John Burroughs

  • #30
    John Burroughs
    “Leap and the net will appear”
    John Burroughs



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