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  • #1
    “Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
    Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

  • #2
    The earth has its music for those who will listen
    “The earth has its music for those who will listen”
    Reginald Vincent Holmes, Fireside Fancies

  • #3
    Brian Jacques
    “Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
    Brian Jacques, Taggerung

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    William Shakespeare
    “I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
    William Shakespeare

  • #6
    Albert Einstein
    “Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #7
    Ingrid Bergman
    “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
    Ingrid Bergman

  • #8
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
    Vladimir Nabokov

  • #9
    Haruki Murakami
    “Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #10
    E.B. White
    “I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”
    E. B. White, Letters of E. B. White

  • #11
    John Keats
    “The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
    John Keats

  • #12
    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    John Muir

  • #13
    John Muir
    “The mountains are calling and I must go.”
    John Muir

  • #14
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #15
    Michael Pollan
    “Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”
    Michael Pollan

  • #16
    Andy Warhol
    “I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.”
    Andy Warhol

  • #17
    John Donne
    “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

    [The Autumnal]”
    John Donne, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

  • #18
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    “I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
    Frank Lloyd Wright, Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture

  • #19
    Albert Einstein
    “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #21
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “God has no religion.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #22
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #23
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    Soren Kierkegaard

  • #24
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #25
    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #26
    George R.R. Martin
    “We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.”
    George R.R. Martin

  • #27
    George R.R. Martin
    “Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

  • #28
    George R.R. Martin
    “People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

  • #29
    George R.R. Martin
    “There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: fear

  • #30
    George R.R. Martin
    “Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones



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