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Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
1855·New York City, USA

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

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1855·Brooklyn, New York, USA

Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, / If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.

1855

I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

1860

After the dazzle of day is gone, only the dark, dark night shows to my eyes the stars; after the plain of the surface and the breakers have gone, the depths of the ocean show beautiful forms.

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Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder·77 AD

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

John MuirJohn Muir

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

AristotleAristotle·350 BC

Nature does not do anything in vain.

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