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Environment Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.
- When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.
- The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
- Coal is a portable climate.
- Lose yourself in nature and find peace
- Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
- Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.
- Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
- The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some…
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