“Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.”
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John Muir
17 quotes“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
William Wordsworth
12 quotes“Nature never did betrayThe heart that loved her.”
Khalil Gibran
5 quotes“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
Wendell Berry
5 quotes“There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.”
Rabindranath Tagore
4 quotes“The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.”
Joseph Conrad
4 quotes“The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.”
D.H. Lawrence
3 quotes“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”
Wallace Stevens
3 quotes“We live in an old chaos of the sun.”
John Keats
3 quotes“Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer”
Rainer Maria Rilke
3 quotes“All things want to float.”
Walt Whitman
3 quotes“Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
3 quotes“Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God.”