Favorite Quotations
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Power of Myth
We need the tonic of wildness [and]...nature. ~ Henry David Thoreau All nature wears one universal grin. ~ Henry Fielding
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf's a flower. ~ Albert Camus In every out thrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is a story of the earth. ~ Rachel Carson The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; she never produces classes. ~ Lydia Maria Child Everything we make pollutes. The most responsible thing we can do is to make each product as well as we know how so it lasts as long as possible. ~ Yvon Chouinard It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility. ~ Rachel Carson I believe in rain, in odd miracles, in the intelligence that allows terns and swallows to find their way across Earth. ~ Paul Hawkins Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in tune once more." ~ John Burroughs