cool quotes 4 (2)

[brinny]

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.
~George Gordon

 

[brinny]

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ~Hal Borland

 

[brinny]

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. ~Galileo

 

[brinny]

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. ~John Muir

 

[brinny]

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. ~Jane Austen

 

[brinny]

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu

 

[brinny]

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[brinny]

Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. ~William Blake

 

[meepmoopmeep]

If you think that you can or think that you can't, you're right!
-Henry Ford-

 

[brinny]

To one who has been long in city pent,
'Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven, - to breathe a prayer
Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
~John Keats

 

[brinny]

Nature hates calculators. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[brinny]

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

 

[brinny]

The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,
The brooks for the fishers of song;
To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game
The streams and the woods belong.
~Sam Walter Foss

 

[brinny]

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

 

[MN John]

[FONT=Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times]ABC's of Friendship
(A)ccepts you as you are
(B)elieves in "you"
(C)alls you just to say "HI"
(D)oesn't give up on you
(E)nvisions the whole of you (even the unfinished parts)
(F)orgives your mistakes
(G)ives unconditionally
(H)elps you
(I)nvites you over
(J)ust "be" with you
(K)eeps you close at heart
(L)oves you for who you are
(M)akes a difference in your life
(N)ever Judges
(O)ffers support
(P)icks you up
(Q)uiets your fears
(R)aises your spirits
(S)ays nice things about you
(T)ells you the truth when you need to hear it
(U)nderstands you
(V)alues you
(W)alks beside you
(X)-plains things you don't understand
(Y)ells when you won't listen and
(Z)aps you back to reality
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[brinny]

What I like about camping is you can get really dirty. Either you're all by yourself, so no one else sees you, or everyone you're with is just as dirty as you are, so nobody cares. ~Anonymous former Boy Scout, quoted in Highs! Over 150 Ways to Feel Really, REALLY Good... Without Alcohol or Other Drugs by Alex J. Packer

hahahaaa! Love it!

 

[brinny]

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that.... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature. ~Abraham Cowley

 

[brinny]

You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them. ~Russell Chatham

 

[brinny]

Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you'll find it there. ~Robb Sagendorph

a very wise man

 

[brinny]

Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence. ~Alfred Billings Street