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• The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the…
• If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth"…
• A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse…
• Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though some scold…
• Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into…
• When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very…
• Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience…
• Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.
• Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.
• If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine…
• As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.
• It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.

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