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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.

Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.

Everything kept in joyful rhythmic motion in the pulses of Nature's big heart.

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.

Death, like birth, is a mystery of nature; the one a compounding of elements, the other a resolution into the same.

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.

None other than this long brown land lays such a hold on the affections. The rainbow hills, the tender bluish mists, the luminous radiance of the spring, have the lotus charm.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

For we never can make anything our own except that which is truly related to us.

The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.

The hours when the mind is absorbed by beauty are the only hours when we really live, so that the longer we can stay among these things so much the more is snatched from inevitable Time.

Very, very early in my boyhood I had acquired the habit of going about alone to amuse myself in my own way.

Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.