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Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone — and to no one.
Edward Abbey1927–1989The Journey Home (1977), “Come On In”, p. 88
Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Comedy
We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Physics and Philosophy (1958)
- Science
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
The stars hide away their shining form around the lovely moon when in all her fullness she shines (over all) the earth.
Sappho650–550 BCFr. 34 Voigt (tr. David A. Campbell, 1982)
Nature is, and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible; and from which all excellencies must originally flow.
Joshua Reynolds1723–1792Discourse no. 6; vol. 1, p. 162.
The laws of nature are sublime, but there is a moral sublimity before which the highest intelligences must kneel and adore.
Horace Mann1796–1859A Few Thoughts for a Young Man (1850), pp. 37–38
- Morality
Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.
Bernard of Clairvaux1090–1153Epistola CVI, sect. 2; translation from Edward Churton The Early English Church ([1840] 1841) p. 324
- Education
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied — it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
Ansel Adams1902–1984Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (1985)
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
We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it — for a little while.
Willa Cather1873–1947O Pioneers! (1913), Part V, Ch. 3
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Edward Abbey1927–1989Preface (dated June 1987) for 1988 reprint of Desert Solitaire
Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, O Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee.
Marcus Aurelius121–180Meditations, Book IV, 23
- Time
The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world.
John Constable1776–1837As quoted in C. R. Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843)
Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality.
Henri Matisse1869–1954“Interview with Henri Matisse” by Jacques Guenne, L’Art Vivant (15 September 1925), translated by Jack Flam in Matisse on Art (1995)
- Art