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| | The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
| | Albert Einstein,
1879-1955, German American,
Physicist |
| Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals.
| | Aldo Leopold,
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| To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
| | Alex Grey,
1953-, American,
Artist |
| A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
| | Andy Goldsworthy,
1956, British,
Artist |
| The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
| | Arthur Rimbaud,
1854-1891, French,
Poet |
| I expect to pass through this world but once, any good thing therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature (or child), let me do it now, let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
| | Attienne De Grellet,
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| To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
| | Auguste Rodin,
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| The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
| | Auguste Rodin,
1840-1917, French,
Sculptor |
| I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
| | Baruch Spinoza,
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| Nature abhors a vacuum.
| | Benedict Spinoza,
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| Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
| | Bill Vaughan,
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| As the astounding vastness of the universe becomes obscured, there is a throwback to a vision of a universe that essentially amounts to earth, or one's country, or state or city. Perspective becomes myopic.
| | Brian Greene,
1963-, American,
Physicist |
| The whole world is a man's birthplace.
| | Caecilius Statius,
220-168 BCE, Roman,
Poet |
| He plant trees to benefit another generation.
| | Caecilius Statius,
220-168 BCE, Roman,
Poet |
| I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.
| | Carol Ann Duffy,
1955-, British,
Poet |
| It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
| | Charles Churchill,
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| Essentially, all life depends upon the soil .... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.
| | Charles E. Kellogg,
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| Nature has endowed the earth with glorious wonders and vast resources that man may use for his own ends. Regardless of our tastes or our way of living, there are none that present more variations to tax our imagination than the soil, and certainly none so important to our ancestors, to ourselves, and to our children
| | Charles Kellogg,
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| You must teach your children...that all things are connected like the blood which unites one family. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
| | Chief Seattle,
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