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Nature

Quotations from the Wayside

If a bird sings among your branches, be not too ready to tame it.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL

It is only when we are aware of the earth as poetry that we truly live.
HENRY BESTON

Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of humanity.
HENRY BESTON

Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

The place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
EXODUS 3:5

Nature travaileth most painfully with her noblest products.
MARGARET FULLER

Grass is the forgiveness of nature—her constant benediction.
JOHN INGALLS

Nature’s silence is its one remark.
ANNIE DILLARD

Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems.
RAINER MARIA RILKE

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

I think of man in nature as the divinest and most startling of facts.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Where the earth is, we are.
WALT WHITMAN

The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.
WALT WHITMAN

Everything in nature is resurrection.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

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