“Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.”
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John Muir
17 quotes“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and c...”
William Wordsworth
12 quotes“The ocean is a mighty harmonist.”
Khalil Gibran
5 quotes“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
Wendell Berry
5 quotes“The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.”
Rabindranath Tagore
4 quotes“Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.”
Joseph Conrad
4 quotes“And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is ruthlessly frank”
Charles Dickens
3 quotes“. . .for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth”
D.H. Lawrence
3 quotes“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”
John Ruskin
3 quotes“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
3 quotes“Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above th...”
Heraclitus
3 quotes“Nature loves to hide.”
Arthur C. Clarke
3 quotes“Meteorites don’t fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way.” - John W. Campbell”