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It is not down in any map; true places never are
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I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.
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This is a glorious region, and the air and life are intoxicating.
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The greatness and the minuteness of nature pass all understanding.
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The emotions excited by the songs of these thrushes belong to a higher order, springing as they do from our deepest sense of the beauty and harmony of the world.
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Every artist does something more than copy Nature; more comes out in his account than goes into the original experience.
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Nature loves such woods, and places her own seal upon them.
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Every feature became more rigidly alpine, without, however, producing any chilling effect; for going to the mountains is like going home.
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Standing here in the deep, brooding silence all the wilderness seems motionless, as if the work of creation were done.
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After listening to it in all kinds of winds, night and day, season after season, I think I could approximate to my position on the mountains by this pine-music alone.
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Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Thousands of God's wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted.
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Nowhere will you see the majestic operations of nature more clearly revealed beside the frailest, most gentle and peaceful things.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail.
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Fears vanish as soon as one is fairly free in the wilderness.
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Only spread a fern frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.
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The dullest eye in the world must surely be quickened by such trees as these.
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Everything kept in joyful rhythmic motion in the pulses of Nature's big heart.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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The whole world seems richer now that I have found this plant in so noble a landscape.
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.
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Observe continually that all things exist in change; and keep this thought ever with you, that Nature loves nothing more than changing what things now are, and making others like them.
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Death, like birth, is a mystery of nature; the one a compounding of elements, the other a resolution into the same.
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We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.