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    Lewis Carroll
    “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: appreciation, nature, seasons, snow, winter
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    John Muir
    “The mountains are calling and I must go.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: nature
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    George Carlin
    “I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: grass, hero, heroism, individualism, individuality, nature
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    Margaret Atwood
    “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg
    tags: nature, spring
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    William Shakespeare
    “I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: as-you-like-it, celia, nature, poetry
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    Lord Byron
    “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
    There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
    There is society, where none intrudes,
    By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
    I love not man the less, but Nature more”
    ― Lord Byron
    tags: nature, poetry, solitude
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: art, nature, poetry, suicide
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    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
    tags: nature
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
    tags: environment, exploration, explore, land, mysterious, mystery, nature, sea, unexplorable, unfathomable, wild, wilderness, wildness
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    Gary Snyder
    “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
    ― Gary Snyder
    tags: conservation, home, nature
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: earth, heaven, heavenly, nature
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    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
    tags: energy, mountains, nature
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    Amit Ray
    “Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.”
    ― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
    tags: beauty, beauty-in-nature, inspirational, love, meditation, mind, mindfulness, nature, nature-s-beauty, pure-awareness, purifying, relaxation
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    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
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."

    [Notebook, Oct. 10, 1842]”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks: The Centenary Edition
    tags: autumn, nature, sunshine
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    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
    tags: nature, simplicity
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    Andy Warhol
    “I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.”
    ― Andy Warhol
    tags: nature
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    John Muir
    “We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”
    ― John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra
    tags: living, mountains, nature
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I had an inheritance from my father,
    It was the moon and the sun.
    And though I roam all over the world,
    The spending of it’s never done.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
    tags: inheritance, legacy, nature
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