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“The kiss of sun for pardon The song of the birds for mirth One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.”
“For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully though I never received one cent for it.”
“The next time it begins to rain ... lie down on your belly nestle your chin into the grass and get a frog's-eye view of how raindrops fall . . . The sight of hundreds of blades of grass bowing down...”
“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 and w...”
“Yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
“When all else is lost the future still remains.”
“When I look at the future it's so bright it burns my eyes.”
“Earth's crammed with Heaven And every common bush afire with God.”
“To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms she speaks A various language.”
“I love not man the less but nature more.”
“For Art may err but Nature cannot miss.”
“The woods were made for the hunter of dreams The brooks for the fishes of song.”
“Nature like a kind and smiling mother lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.”
“Accuse not Nature she hath done her part Do thou but thine!”
“To hold as 't were the mirror up to nature.”
“I chatter chatter as I flow To join the brimming river For men may come and men may go But I go on forever.”
“When I would recreate myself I seek the darkest wood the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum. There is the s...”
