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All good things are wild and free.

— Henry David Thoreau

The earth has music for those who listen.

— William Shakespeare

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

— John Keats

Accuse not Nature! She hath done her part; do thou but thine.

— John Milton

Nature always wears the colours of the spirit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

— Socrates

Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, with charm of earliest birds.

— John Milton

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root.

— William Wordsworth

In the morning of my life I discover that all of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

— Henry David Thoreau

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

— William Wordsworth

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

— Henry David Thoreau

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Scenery is fine — but human nature is finer.

— John Keats

Come forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher.

— William Wordsworth

Water is the driving force of all nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

— Heraclitus

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

— William Wordsworth

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

— Robert Frost

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

— Rabindranath Tagore

What are men to rocks and mountains?

— Jane Austen

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