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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

—Michelangelo Antonioni

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What sublime thoughts filled my mind as I bent to the wind, and trudged through the gorse and heather? I will tell you. I was wondering how much money I shall make out of my next book. Thus does nature keep us in touch with the great realities of existence.

—J.B. Morton

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In Rome you long for the country; there, you praise to the skies the city you’ve just left.

—Horace

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

—Rainer Maria Rilke

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That’s the problem with nature. Something’s always stinging you or oozing mucus on you. Let’s go watch TV.

—Bill Watterson

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A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

—P.D. James

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When I turn away from nature — human, animal, earthly or cosmic — when I turn away, that is, from intimate livingness, it means, simply and always, that I am afraid.

—Sanfor Goodman

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It has always been part of basic human experience to live in a culture of wilderness. There has been no wilderness without some kind of human presence for several hundred thousand years. Nature is not a place to visit, it is home.

—Gary Snyder

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Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

—Dorothy Parker

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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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When we stand beneath the night sky, we stand beneath the history of the whole of creation. It is a miracle that so much of it is perceptible — a miracle we might appreciate more if it had not occurred and we did not have senses to discern it.

—Richard Grossinger

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In every living thing there is the desire for love.

—D. H. Lawrence

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Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

—Steven Wright

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Things could change so entirely, in a heartbeat; the world could be made entirely anew, because someone was kind.

—Jo Baker in Longbourn

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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

—Bertrand Russell

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