“This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.”
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John Muir
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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.”
John Donne
4 quotes“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
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 Keats
3 quotes“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
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”
John Ruskin
3 quotes“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.”