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“Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry she carries them”
“I wanted to say something about the universe. There's God angels plants... and horseshit.”
“When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.”
“The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.”
“Nature thrives on patience man on impatience.”
“The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.”
“What mighty battles have I seen and heard waged between the trees and the west wind - an Iliad fought in the fields of air.”
“Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay harvests perish flowers vanish but grass is immortal.”
“I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree or a yellow birch or an old acquaintance among the pines.”
“The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat in the active and passive.”
“The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination but the combination is locked up in the safe.”
“When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.”
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely an...”
“Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.”
“Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb...”
“By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.”
“Nothing is worth more than this day.”
“To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.”
“Normal day let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you love you bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
“The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.”
