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Quotes about nature
Emerson published Nature in 1836, arguing that the woods could put a person right. Thoreau, his younger friend, took him at his word, and walked and measured and counted. He sounded out the depth of Walden Pond because people said it had no bottom.
Tagore's short poems in Stray Birds look at a small thing for a moment and move on. All of these work well in a small space, which makes them good Lock Screen reading.
From the books
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Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.
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Brothers, have no fear of men’s sin. Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of …
Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it.
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… for the future. Seek no reward, for great is your reward on this earth: the spiritual joy which is only vouchsafed to the righteous man. Fear not the great nor the mighty, but be wise and ever serene. Know the measure, know the times, study that. When you are left alone, pray. Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love. Love all men, love everything. Seek that rapture and ecstasy. Water the earth with the tears of your joy and love those tears. Don’t be ashamed of that ecstasy, prize it, for it is a gift of God and a great one; it …
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.
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I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere. Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us! or, what if we had been taken sick? How vigilant we are! determined not to live by faith if we …
All things greatly outgrow their beginnings.
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… surpasses his own is really his." I answer, that some things derive their first origin from others, yet are greater than those others; and a thing may be greater than that from which it took its rise, although without that thing to start from it never could have grown so great. All things greatly outgrow their beginnings. Seeds are the causes of all things, and yet are the smallest part of the things which they produce. Look at the Rhine, or the Euphrates, or any other famous rivers; how small they are, if you only view them at the place from whence they take their rise? they gain all that …
Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.
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… an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise. To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me. Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep. Why is it that men give so poor an account of their day if they have not been slumbering? They are not such poor calculators. If they had not been overcome with drowsiness, they would have performed something. The millions are …
The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
You must hear the bird’s song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.
Nature repairs her ravages, but not all.
What is sour in the house a bracing walk makes sweet.
Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.
Nature will not have us fret and fume.
By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
All this you surely will see, and much more, if you are prepared to see it,—if you look for it.
Morning brings back the heroic ages.
Most persons do not see the sun.
Nothing is sufficient for covetous desire, but Nature can be satisfied even with scant measure.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.
In nature every moment is new; the past is always swallowed and forgotten; the coming only is sacred.
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
Seeds are the causes of all things, and yet are the smallest part of the things which they produce.
In the woods, is perpetual youth.
Wisdom keeps school outdoors.
In short, all good things are wild and free.
We can never have enough of Nature.
Our bodies are gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.
All things are change, yet we need not fear anything new.
Many people go to real places, and never see them; and many people pass through this valley, and never see it.
Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Verily, like the sun do I love life, and all deep seas.
Life must be reaped like the ripe ears of corn.
The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.
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