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How sweet to be a Cloud
Floating in the Blue!
A. A. Milne1882–1956Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter IIn context
It seems to me, when I see nature, that I see it ready made, completely written — but then, try to do it!
Claude Monet1840–1926Letter to Frédéric Bazille (15 July 1864)
- Art
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
L. M. Montgomery1874–1942Anne of Green Gables (1908), Chapter XVIIn context
- Happiness
’Tis the last rose of summer
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone
Thomas Moore1779–1852The Last Rose of Summer (1813)In context
- Age
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir1838–1914My First Summer in the Sierra, 1869, Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 248
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir1838–1914John of the Mountains (1938), journal for July 1890, p. 313
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.
John Muir1838–1914The Yosemite (1912), chapter 15: Hetch Hetchy Valley
- Beauty
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
IMIris Murdoch1919–1999A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970); 2001, p. 170.
- Happiness
My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness.
MOMary Oliver1935–2019Thirst (2006), “Messenger”
- Love
Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person’s property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Metamorphoses (Transformations), Book VI, 349-351; translation by Michael Simpson
It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things; and acted according to Nature; whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable.
William Penn1644–1718Some Fruits of Solitude (1693), no. 9
To-day I made the ascent of the highest mountain in this region, which is not improperly called Ventosum. My only motive was the wish to see what so great an elevation had to offer.
Petrarch1304–1374Letter to Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro (26 April 1336), “The Ascent of Mount Ventoux”, tr. James Harvey Robinson (1898)
The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh1921–2021The World Wildlife Fund Congress, London, (1970).
- Children
I don’t work according to nature, but infront and together with it. An artist must observe the nature, but never confuse it with the art.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
- Art
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
Max Planck1858–1947Where Is Science Going? (1932), tr. James Murphy, Epilogue, p. 217
- Science