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  • #1
    Sanjo Jendayi
    “Let us grow strong roots
    Watering and nurturing
    Each other daily.”
    Sanjo Jendayi

  • #2
    Jacques-Yves Cousteau
    “For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.”
    Jacques-Yves Cousteau

  • #3
    Gretel Ehrlich
    “Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.”
    Gretel Ehrlich

  • #4
    Henry Miller
    “The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.”
    Henry Miller

  • #5
    Edward Abbey
    “You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.”
    Edward Abbey, The Best of Edward Abbey

  • #6
    Daniel Quinn
    “It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.”
    Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

  • #7
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #8
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature and Selected Essays

  • #9
    Henry David Thoreau
    “This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #10
    Fatema Mernissi
    “Nature is woman's best friend,' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'.”
    Fatima Mernissi, Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood

  • #11
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #12
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #13
    Aldous Huxley
    “My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”
    Aldous Huxley

  • #14
    Henry David Thoreau
    “He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #15
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #16
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    “He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.”
    Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

  • #17
    David Brower
    “The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.”
    David Brower

  • #18
    Cormac McCarthy
    “At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned”
    Cormac McCarthy, Child of God

  • #19
    William Golding
    “I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.”
    William Golding

  • #20
    Katharine Graham
    “A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

    Katharine Graham

  • #21
    Jacob Bronowski
    “Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding”
    Jacob Bronowski

  • #22
    Juvenal
    “Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.”
    Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires

  • #23
    Ilyas Kassam
    “If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable”
    Ilyas Kassam

  • #24
    Walt Whitman
    “Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?”
    Walt Whitman

  • #25
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #26
    “You can predict anything in this world but not the nature's behaviour”
    Ningraj
    tags: nature

  • #27
    Margaret Fuller
    “Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”
    Margaret Fuller

  • #28
    Milan Kundera
    “The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #29
    “We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.”
    Richard Black

  • #30
    Thomas Hobbes
    “The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.”
    Thomas Hobbes



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