Nature Quotes

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If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or
       burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in
       silence, what wonder and expectation there would be
       in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change.

 

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Discovering this idyllic place, we find ourselves filled with a
     yearning to linger here, where time stands still and beauty
     overwhelms.

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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under
    trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water,
    or watching the clouds float across the sky is by no means
    a waste of time.  

 

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Some of nature's most exquisite handiwork is on a miniature
     scale, as anyone knows who has applied a magnifying glass
     to  a snowflake. 

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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains
     of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and
     spring after the winter.

 

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When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the
        bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what
        sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.

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God is the friend of silence.  Trees, flowers, grass grow in
        silence.  See the stars, moon, and sun, how they move
        in silence.

 

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Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful.
        It is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament.    Welcome
        it in every fair face, every fair sky,  every fair flower.   

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Be like the bird, who halting in his flight on limb too slight,
         feels it give way beneath him, yet sings knowing he
         hath wings.

 

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