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• The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

  David Attenborough

  Air, Water, Needs

  "David Attenborough: force of nature". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

  Sara Teasdale

  Life, Beautiful, Children

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

  Bernard Williams

  Happiness, Dog, Inspirational Life

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• The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow and woodland, of hickory and oak and maple and hemlock and pineland forests, of wildlife dwelling around us, of the river and its wellbeing--all of this [is] the integral community in which we live.

  Thomas Berry

  Sunset, Sunshine, Animal

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• If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone can give is: possibly. By the time we find out, however, it might be too late. One planet, one experiment.

  E. O. Wilson

  Ecosystems, Giving, Too Late

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• It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Jimmy Carter (1988). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, Bantam

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• To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

  Janet Morris

  Simple, Clouds, Sky

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.292, Paradise Publishing

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• I love not man the less, but Nature more.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Earth Day, Solitude

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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• Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

  Thomas Berry

  Children, Teaching, Garden

  Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry (1996). “Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth”, Random House (NY)

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  The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

  Charles Darwin

  Love, Life, Men

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A voice of greeting from the wind was sent; The mists enfolded me with soft white arms; The birds did sing to lap me in content, The rivers wove their charms, And every little daisy in the grass Did look up in my face, and smile to see me pass!

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Voice, Rivers, White

  Richard Henry STODDARD (1852). “Poems”, p.56

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• I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance

  Iris van Herpen

  Beauty, Power, Perception

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• The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

  Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

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• Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Motivation, Fun

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.798, Best Books on

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• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Running, Rainy Day

  "The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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• Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Land, Generations

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.32, Taylor Trade Publications

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  Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

  Horace

  Science, Foolish, Natural

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• Nature alone is the master of true genius.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Genius, Masters, True Genius

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• As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can manipulate according to our real or fabricated needs, nature remains opaque, and does not reveal to us its true being.

  Henri Nouwen

  Real, Ocean, Animal

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Clowning in Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation”, p.86, Image

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• Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

  Ashley Montagu

  Animal, Names, Able

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• Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

  John Dewey

  Death, Mean, Desire

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• All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Men, Overcoming

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Individual, Reckless, Carrie

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.72, North Atlantic Books

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