A quiet peace of mind is a luxury for so many of us. Our modern escape is reading the novels of Henry David Thoreau or viewing images of stunning, serene nature like the ones presented here. Escape if you can with these images of solemnly beautiful abandoned cabins from all corners of the world. |
"The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach." - Henry Beston |
"Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the once less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost |
"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of stars." - Walt Whitman |
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." - William Shakespeare |
"He who is richest is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature." - Socrates |
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly." - Richard Bach |
"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver." - Martin Luther |
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time." - John Lubbock |
"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative." - H.G. Wells |
"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed." - Walt Whitman |
"Land really is the best art." - Andy Warhol |
"In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences." - Robert Green Ingersoll |
"Just living is not enough...one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." - Hans Christian Andersen |
"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!" - Emily Dickinson |
"Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying." - Langston Hughes |
"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder." - Carl Sandburg |
"Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature." - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
"It is only in the country that we get to know a person or a book." - Cyril Connolly |
"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 |
"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty." - Albert Einstein |
"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear." - Mahatma Gandhi |
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