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Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed… if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons. – James Russell Lowell

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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. – St. Bernard

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A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable unimplicated sun. – Llewelyn Powys, The Pathetic Fallacy

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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? – Herman Melville

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Having babies is fun, but babies grow up into people. – M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter, “The Price of Tomato Juice”

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Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait. – Nick Lampson

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My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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I imagine that yes is the only living thing. – e.e. cummings

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