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• ‟ I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

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• ‟ How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

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• ‟ We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.

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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.

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• ‟ If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.

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• ‟ The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite? Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.

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• ‟ To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.

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• ‟ Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.

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• ‟ Next to the laborer in the fields, the walker holds the closest relation to the soil; and he holds a closer and more vital relation to nature because he is freer and his mind more at leisure.

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