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“Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.”
“Nature does nothing uselessly.”
“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
“I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant li...”
“Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.”
“A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of...”
“Going to the woods is going home.”
“Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.”
“Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.”
“As if the night had said to me, You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.”
“You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or ...”
“Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.”
“You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you. - Pan”
“To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look a...”
“I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.”
“I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.”
“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”
“I am in love with this world... I have tilled its soil, I have gathered its harvest, I have waited upon its seasons, and always have I reaped what I have sown. I have climbed its mountains, roamed ...”
“In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.”
