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" In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. "

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" To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. "

" There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. "

" Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. "

" Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. "

Winston Churchill

" Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. "

" All nature wears one universal grin. "

" There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. "

R. Buckminster Fuller

" I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. "

" Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. "

Bhumibol Adulyadej

" How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! "

Emily Dickinson

" I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have. "

" The sea has neither meaning nor pity. "

" Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!' "

" We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable. "

" Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be. "

Sharon Salzberg

" Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. "

" To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. "

" We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. "

" The ocean is a mighty harmonist. "

William Wordsworth

" Nature's my muse and it's been my passion. "

" One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls. "

" How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature! "

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

" The skull is nature's sculpture. "

" Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. "

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

" Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises. "

" I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence. "

" Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have. "

" To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. "

Henry Ward Beecher