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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

The soil, in return for her service, keeps the tree tied to her; the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

The sun - my almighty physician.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination, but the combination is locked up in the safe.

The universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes--every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

The unnatural - that too is natural.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the right, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.

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

There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

This is the day the Lord had made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.


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