Celebrate Earth Day with these 24 wonderful quotes.
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2. "I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.'"
—Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
3. "Not just beautiful, though—the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me."
—Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
4. "'Is the spring coming?' he said. 'What is it like?' ...
'It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth.'"
—Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
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6. "If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees."
—Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
7. "The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl and touch one another, but they are so distant, so very far apart, that they cannot feel the warmth of each other, even though they are made of burning."
—Beth Revis, Across the Universe
8. "I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says 'Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.'"
―Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
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