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The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches


The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and


There is lace in every living thing: the bare branches of winter, the patterns of clouds, the surfac


Every springI hear the thrush singingin the glowing woodshe is only passing through.His voice is dee


You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only


...for everytime I see the sky I'm aware of belonging to the universe than to just one corner of the


The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.


Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and dou


We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and


And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every


Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sa


To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scali


The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.


The extreme inequality of our ways of life, the excess of idleness among some and the excess of toil


We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the s


They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some po


The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in


How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forc


In its complexity and sensuality, nature invites exploration, direct contact, and experience. But it


I breathe in the soft, saturated exhalations of cedar trees and salmonberry bushes, fireweed and woo