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Beautiful earth Quote by John Muir

“Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.” quote by John Muir — Download Open image

“Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”

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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

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Our lives are rounded with a sleep.

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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.

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Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the alpenglow, to me the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle…

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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

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In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in the woods, and waste and pure destruction are making rapid headway. If the importance of the forests were even vaguely understood, even from an economic standpoint, their preservation would call forth the most watchful attention…

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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

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The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely…

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The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.

Robert A. Heinlein

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The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see The Great Wall [of China].

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Forests are the lungs of our land…

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

Thomas A. Edison

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We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.

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As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most…

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For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a thin seam of dark…

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This beautiful Earth that we have, this gift that the Universe has given us is precious beyond measure, precious beyond imagination, and we are…

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To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

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Hubert H. Humphrey

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