Friday, 8 November 2013

The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man - unattributable

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift - Albert Einstein

This curious world which we inhabit is more wonderful than it is convenient, more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used - Henry David Thoreau, American writer (1817-1862)

If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again - John Zerzan

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

If you are missing out on the natural joy and wisdom of life, it is because you have been taught to ignore it....Reconnecting with nature consists of bringing into your consciousness a sensory way of thinking and relating with which you are born - Michael J. Cohen

Nature never says one thing and wisdom another - Decimus Junius Juvenalis

In the United Kingdom no one lives more than 75 miles from the sea. For us, as an island nation, the sea has an all-embracing presence. Spiritually and physically we are intimately connected with our shores. The sea has immense power, which we ignore at our peril - National Trust 'Shifting Shores - Living with a changing coastline' (2005)

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore;
There is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar;
I love not man the less, but nature more - George Gordon Byron, 1788-1824

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything - William Shakespeare

The earth has music for those who listen - William Shakespeare

Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher - William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

The poetry of the earth is never dead - John Keats

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order - John Burroughs

When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves - David Orr

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world - John Muir

The beauty of mother nature is her ability to make complex things appear simple - Loius E Samuels, M.D.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts - Rachel Carson

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