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Shel Silverstein

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.

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Shel Silverstein

Once I spoke the language of the flowers

Once I spoke the language of the flowers,
Once I understood each word the caterpillar said,
Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings,
And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed.

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Modern Family

Rainbows. It’s just colors in the sky. Do we have to take a picture every time we see one?

Jay Pritchett: Rainbows. It’s just colors in the sky. Do we have to take a picture every time we see one?

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them.

The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them.

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William Hazlitt

the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.

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William Hazlitt

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

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Lewis Gordon Pugh

My love for the water would always be tempered by respect for dangers that must never be underestimated.

My love for the water would always be tempered by respect for dangers that must never be underestimated.

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Lewis Gordon Pugh

My love for the environment did not develop out of a vacuum.

Always when we walked, it was clear to me how much he loved nature, wild flowers, animals in their natural habitat and the simple pleasures of a beautiful sunset. My love for the environment did not develop out of a vacuum.

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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

It was the rain that defeated every invader.

Grandfather: The truth is that, while we Welsh like to believe that it was the mountains that beat the successive invaders, it was really the weather that comes with mountains. It was the rain that defeated every invader. Yes, simple rain.

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Life, the Universe and Everything

He had just had a wonderful idea about how to cope … which was that he would go mad.

The air was clear and scented, the breeze flitted lightly through the tall grass around his cave, the birds were chirruping at each other, the butterflies were flitting about prettily, and the whole of nature seemed to be conspiring to be as pleasant as it possibly could.

It wasn’t all the pastoral delights that were making Arthur feel so cheery, though. He had just had a wonderful idea about how to cope with the terrible lonely isolation, the nightmares, the failure of all his attempts at horticulture, and the sheer futurelessness and futility of his life here on prehistoric Earth, which was that he would go mad.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe in God, only I spell it “Nature”.

I believe in God, only I spell it “Nature”.