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Quote by John Burroughs
Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the str

Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. – John Burroughs

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Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. – John Burroughs

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In the broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
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Let me enjoy the earth no less
Because the all-enacting Might
That fashioned forth its loveliness
Had other aims than my delight. – Thomas Hardy

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The world is in balance <...>. To light a candle is to cast a shadow. – Ursula K. LeGuin

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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts. – Bertrand Russell

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