“My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.”
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“When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.”
“The groves were God's first temples.”
“The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.”
“Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.”
“We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.”
“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.”
“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.”
“My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.”
“Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.”
“People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.”
“Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.”
“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.”
“I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.”
“External nature is only internal nature writ large.”
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
“My nature just changes.”
“I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.”
“I think I have a dualistic nature.”
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.”
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”
“All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.”