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The Commonplace Book

A Digital Florilegium

§ On Nature

Observations of the patterns and wisdom in the natural world

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."

— John Muir

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."

— John Muir

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

— Albert Einstein

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

— Lao Tzu

"The earth has music for those who listen."

— William Shakespeare

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees."

— Henry David Thoreau

"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature."

— Zeno of Citium

"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain."

— John Muir

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."

— Aristotle

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."

— John Keats

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

— William Hazlitt

"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."

— Blaise Pascal

"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee."

— Emily Dickinson

✎ The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

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