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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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

—Groucho Marx

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

—Kahlil Gibran

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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

—G. K. Chesterton

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If you think something is boring, try doing it for two minutes. If you still think it's boring, try it for four. If you still think it's boring, try it for eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, and so on and so forth. Soon enough you'll find that it's really not boring at all.

—John Cage

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Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for.

—Jane Urquhart in Changing Heaven

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