One Beautiful Moment at a Time
Quotes
The least movement is of importance to all nature.
The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Blaise Pascal
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church,
I keep it staying at Home -
With a bobolink for a Chorister,
And an Orchard, for a Dome.
~Emily Dickenson~
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
~Frank Lloyd Wright~
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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome
than the most luxurious Persian rug.
~Helen Keller~
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods
and making the earth bald before her time,
he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
~Henry David Thoreau~
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise
~James Russell Lowell~
Nature teaches more than she preaches.
There are no sermons in stones.
It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
~John Burroughs~
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
~Mohandas K. Gandhi~
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Let children walk with Nature,
let them see the beautiful blendings
and communions of death and life,
their joyous inseparable unity,
as taught in woods and meadows,
plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star,
and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
~John Muir~
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
The winds will blow their own freshness into you...
while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
~John Muir~
Cats are intended to teach us
that not everything in nature has a function.
~Joseph Wood Krutch~
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven
~Rabindranath Tagore~
The happiest man
is he who learns
from nature
the lesson
of worship.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded
to stay out till sundown,
for going out,
I found, was really going in.
~John Muir, 1913~
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
“Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts” ~ Marianne Williamson
Photo by Rachel of Chicken our cat
