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Nature

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. – Albert Einstein

Nature is new every morning. – Proverb

Nature is new every morning, but its cycles are ancient, independent of all our anxieties, oblivious to our plans. – Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, “Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer,” 2003 September 25th

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. – Jane Austen

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. – Thornton Wilder

Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job. – Greg Peterson, 1997, www.urbanfarm.org

A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds! – Dave Beard

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms — will it return to my body when they scatter? – Kotomichi

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods! – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”

Nature is my medicine. – Sara Moss-Wolfe

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. – Rachel Carson

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that…. I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature. – Abraham Cowley

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. – John Berger, The Sense of Sight, 1980

Happiness flutters in the air whilst we rest among the breaths of nature. – Kelly Sheaffer

Adults are always so busy with the dull and dusty affairs of life which have nothing to do with grass, trees, and running streams. – The Little Grey Men by BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford), 1942

If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere. – Vincent Van Gogh

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon. – Alice Meynell

With innovation and technology, seems we have forgotten to cherish the true beauty the world has to offer. – A.C. Van Cherub, 2008

Nature holds all the answers — go outside and ask some questions — open your heart and listen to the response! – Amethyst Wyldfyre, AnswersFromYourAngels.com

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. – Alan C. Kay