Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything from a spoon to a landing-craft, a natural joy in earthly living is something it never has and never will be able to manufacture.
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
The mountains are calling and I must go.
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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