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“The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in meOlder and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.”
“The Peace of Wild ThingsWhen despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my childrens lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood draker...”
“If we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees.”
“What though the radiance which was once so brightBe now for ever taken from my sight,Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;We will grieve not, rath...”
“I was not prepared: sunset, end of summer. Demonstrations of time as a continuum, as something coming to an end, not a suspension: the senses wouldnt protect me. I caution you as I was never cautio...”
“What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.”
“The stars are forth, the moon above the topsOf the snow-shining mountains.Beautiful!I linger yet with Nature, for the nightHath been to me a more familiar faceThan that of man; and in her starry sh...”
“Inebriate of Air am I And Debauchee of Dew Reeling thro endless summer days From Inns of Molten Blue ”
“I found the poems in the fields,And only wrote them down.”
“One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.”
“I dont need your praiseto survive. I was here first, before you were here, beforeyou ever planted a garden.And Ill be here when only the sun and moonare left, and the sea, and the wide field.I will...”
“The muffled syllables that Nature speaksFill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,She makes a sweeter music than is heard.”
“Tom Dancers gift of a whitebark pine coneYou never know What opportunity Is going to travel to you, Or through you.Once a friend gave me A small pine cone- One of a few He found in the scatOf...”
“Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do,In spiders web a truth discerning,Attach one silken strand to youFor my returning.”
“Ive come down from the skylike some damned ghost, delayedtoo longTo the abandoned fieldsthe trees returned and grew.They stand and grow. Time comesTo them, time goes, the treesStand; the only place...”
“Moon, that against the lintel of the westYour forehead lean until the gate be swung,Longing to leave the world and be at rest,Being worn with faring and no longer young,Do you recall at all the Car...”
“A year ago, I was at a dinner in Amsterdam when the question came up of whether each of us loved his or her country. The German shuddered, the Dutch were equivocal, the Brit said he was "comfortabl...”
“We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion on us.”
“Only chance to make the world a success for humanity lies in technology, grand possibility technology provides to do more with less, and indiscriminately for everyone. Return to nature as nature pr...”
“This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting. A man must find his occasions in himself,...”
