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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #3
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #4
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #5
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #6
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #7
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

  • #8
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The soul is healed by being with children.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #9
    Lord Byron
    “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
    There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
    There is society, where none intrudes,
    By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
    I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
    From these our interviews, in which I steal
    From all I may be, or have been before,
    To mingle with the Universe, and feel
    What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”
    Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

  • #10
    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #11
    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    John Muir

  • #12
    Lewis Carroll
    “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #13
    Vincent van Gogh
    “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
    Vincent Willem van Gogh

  • #14
    Lord Byron
    “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
    There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
    There is society, where none intrudes,
    By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
    I love not man the less, but Nature more”
    Lord Byron

  • #15
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
    Percy Bysshe Shelley

  • #16
    John Muir
    “The mountains are calling and I must go.”
    John Muir

  • #17
    William Shakespeare
    “I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
    William Shakespeare

  • #18
    George Carlin
    “I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.”
    George Carlin

  • #19
    Anne Frank
    “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #20
    Dorothy Parker
    “In youth, it was a way I had,
    To do my best to please.
    And change, with every passing lad
    To suit his theories.

    But now I know the things I know
    And do the things I do,
    And if you do not like me so,
    To hell, my love, with you.”
    Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

  • #21
    Margaret Atwood
    “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
    Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg

  • #22
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #23
    Leo Tolstoy
    “A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие

  • #24
    Rachel Carson
    “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
    Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

  • #25
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

  • #26
    Henry David Thoreau
    “We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

  • #27
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #28
    Aldo Leopold
    “I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
    Aldo Leopold

  • #29
    Haruki Murakami
    “Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #30
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
    "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”
    Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden



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