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"Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die."
Gil Stern

"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in."
George Washington Carver

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."
Galileo Galilei

"Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back."
Gwyn Thomas

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
George Bernard Shaw

"For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather, every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously."
George Gissing

"Grass grows by inches but it's killed by feet."
George Thoma

"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty."
Georgia O'Keeffe

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature."
Gerard De Nerval

"There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view."
Harry Millner

"Use what talent you possess - the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."
Henry Van Dyke

"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."
Hal Borland

"Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
Hans Christian Anderson

"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."
Henry David Thoreau

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

"Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it."
Henry David Thoreau

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."
Henry Ward Beecher

"You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet."
Hal Borland

"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."
Hamlin Garland

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

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