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“This is not wilderness for designation or for a park. Not a scenic wilderness and not one good for fishing or the viewing of wildlife. It is wilderness that gets into your nostrils, that runs with ...”
“This far north the sun was still up, although very low, riding through the mountains as if looking for something it lost on the ground.”
“this terror then and drakness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and the law of nature; the warp whose design we shall begin with t...”
“Out of the firelight everything was black and silver, black island, rocks and trees carved cleanly out of the sky and silver river with a flashing light rippling back and forth along the lip of the...”
“Nature is Satan's church.”
“The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.”
“Have you ever been in a large forest and seen a strange black tarn hidden deep among the leaves? It looks bewitched and a little frightening. All is still fir trees and pines huddle close and sile...”
“It was early autumn, then, before the snow began to fly. (Theres an expression for you, born in the country, born from the imaginations of men and their feeling for the right word, the only word, t...”
“Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?”
“It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.”
“The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.”
“A high degree of intelligence yes in no other creature in the natural world. That's why nature shuns us and why we subconsciously hate her and seek to obliterate her. High intelligence leads to the...”
“Each spring for a period of weeks the imperial gardens were filled with prize tulips (Turkish, Dutch, Iranian), all of them shown to their best advantage. Tulips whose petals had flexed wide were h...”
“You don't believe in Nature anymore. It's too isolated from you. You've abstracted it. It's so messy and damaged and sad. Your eyes glaze as you travel life's highway past all the crushed animals a...”
“Rain is Nature's way of telling us to go slowly because the roads will soon be wet.”
“Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: Quick! Quick! Quick! And the more she destroys, the mor...”
“The world moves fast, and so do the bees. Can we find the stillness to see them?”
“all nature is at war”
“Come ye viewless ministers of this dread hour! Come from the fenny lake, the hanging rock, and the midnight cave! The moon is red the stars are out the sky is burning and all nature stands aghas...”
“What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.”
