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“I was always conscious of sounds in nature which my ears could never hear,—that I caught but the prelude to a strain. She always retreats as I advance. Away behind and behind is she and her meaning. Will not this faith and expectation make to itself ears at length?”

— Henry David Thoreau, The Journal, 1837-1861, Share via Whatsapp

“So with the family gone, Mother lived as she wished ... Slowly, snugly, she grew into her background, warm on her grassy bank, poking and peering among the flowery bushes, dishevelled and bright as they. Serenely unkempt were those final years, free from conflict, doubt or dismay, while she reverted gently to a rustic simplicity as a moss-rose reverts to a wild one.”

— Laurie Lee, Cider with Rosie, Share via Whatsapp

“The beauty of spring makes my heart sing.”

— Millie Florence, Share via Whatsapp

“After a moment, the girl paused in her reading and lifted her head to gaze out over the fence at the sunset and slanting roofs before her in all their sun-drenched glory. Her eyes glowed in the reflection of it all, and then slowly drifted back to the book. Jamie turned and stared at the sunset herself, as if its beauty had been suddenly made clear to her. She sat thinking for a moment, somehow wishing that she knew more about the girl on the other side of the fence. She turned again and looked back through the slats, but the girl had gone.”

— Millie Florence, Honey Butter, Share via Whatsapp

“The winter rain, joined my rambling with its soothing potter- patter.”

— Meeta Ahluwalia, Share via Whatsapp

“In nature there are no rewards or punishments: there are consequences.”

— Horace Annesley Vachell, The Face of Clay: An Interpretation, Share via Whatsapp

“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.”

— John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury 1834-1, The Use Of Life, Share via Whatsapp

“Leaves that gives you all the good vibes and positive thoughts after its fall.”

— SwethlanaV, Share via Whatsapp

“The sun explains what the moon told me.”

— Kazi Ploae, Share via Whatsapp

“Such is the dichotomy of forests. Even the smallest remembers what it was to cover nations, and the shadows they contain will whisper the knowledge to anyone who listens.”

— Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields, Share via Whatsapp

“We have always held the land above the one who rules it.”

— Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields, Share via Whatsapp

“The world does not need words. It articulates itself in sunlight, leaves, and shadows. The stones on the path are no less real for lying uncatalogued and uncounted. The fluent leaves speak only the dialect of pure being.”

— Dana Gioia, Interrogations at Noon: Poems, Share via Whatsapp

“Once you blink your eyes you will probably miss the moment to see the beauty of this world.”

— Anuj Jasani, Share via Whatsapp

“A mountaintop is not simply an elevation, but an island, a world within a world, a place out of place.”

— Paul Gruchow, The Necessity of Empty Places, Share via Whatsapp

“It s happening, just from the warming of the sun, the road and green praire farmland and buffeting wind coming together. And soon it is nothing but beautiful warmth and wind and speed and sun down the empty road. The last chills of the morning are thawed by the warm air. Wind and more sun and more smooth road.”

— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance and Siddhartha 2 Books Collection Set, Share via Whatsapp

“You are not helping the planet, you are not helping nature, you are the planet, you are nature, you are helping yourself”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom, Share via Whatsapp

“I m beginning to wonder about trees. Along avenues, on each side, they seem to curve, reach out to each other, or entwine...Whats that all about? - Who told them to do that?...”

— A.Killeen, Share via Whatsapp