Viva Aesthete

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
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—Zeno

The earth is what we all have in common.
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—Wendell Berry

A w**d is no more than a flower in disguise.
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—James Russell Lowell

Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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—John Burroughs

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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—Joseph Campbell

The earth has music for those who listen.
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—William Shakespeare

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

—Gretel Ehrlich

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.

—Charlotte Eriksson

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.

—Jacques-Yves Cousteau

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

—John Burroughs

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