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Quote by John Muir
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though th

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. – John Muir

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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. – John Muir

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environmental
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John Muir
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. – John Muir

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Beauty
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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. – Virginia Woolf

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Nature

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each others folly – that is the first law of nature. – Voltaire

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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. – Winston Churchill

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Nature

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. – Marie Curie

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Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory! – John Keats

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In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them. – Barack Obama

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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists. – Alexander McQueen

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Beauty

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent. – Giacomo Casanova

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Faith