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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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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. – 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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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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Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies is dependent upon Her and all must hopelessly perish if that Earth dies that feeds us. – Viktor Schauberger

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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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In practice, a global approach is needed when dealing with the problems of the spaceship earth which affect all of mankind. But local solutions, inevitably conditioned by local interests, are required for the problems peculiar to each human settlement. – Ren

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The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. – Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers

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