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Monday, November 17, 2008

Earth Poetry Quotes

The poetry of the earth is never dead. ~John Keats

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. ~William Hazlitt

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~Albert Einstein

Nature is my medicine. ~Sara Moss-Wolfe

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. ~e.e. cummings

Nature is a writer's best friend. ~Agavé Powers

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ~Jean Giraudoux

For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death. ~Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.
~George Carlin

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. ~Francis Bacon

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle, 1855

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

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too. ~Chief Luther Standing Bear

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. ~Henry David Thoreau

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