Archive for the ‘Nature’ Category

Orison Swett Marden on Nature

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

- Orison Swett Marden

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John Burroughs on Nature

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

- John Burroughs

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George Thoma on Nature

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Grass grows by inches but it’s killed by feet.

- George Thoma

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Albert Schweitzer on Nature

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

- Albert Schweitzer

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Willa Cather on Nature

Monday, August 25th, 2008

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

- Willa Cather

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William Wordsworth on Nature

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.

- William Wordsworth

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Ambrose Bierce on Nature

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

- Ambrose Bierce

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Albert Schweitzer on Nature

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

- Albert Schweitzer

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William Shakespeare on Nature

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

- William Shakespeare

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Joyce Kilmer on Nature

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

- Joyce Kilmer

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