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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.
Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma.
We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.
Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.
What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.
Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.
As each tree falls so does the earth's ability to heal itself and to adapt to the effects of our changing climate
I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.
Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.
To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order.
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Trusting your intuition is like learning to ride a bike. Everything takes practice before it becomes second nature.
The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.
I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.
Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.
By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better
The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.
Nature is not a drag on growth - its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development.
I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance
Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.
The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.
When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.
...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.
Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?
I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.