“I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.”
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“Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.”
“Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.”
“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.”
“A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.”
“I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.”
“A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.”
“The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.”
“For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.”
“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”
“Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.”
“Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.”
“Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.”
“Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.”
“You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.”
“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.”
“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.”
“The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.”
“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”
“Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.”
“Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.”
“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.”
“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.”