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Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness!

Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!

Let the sea roar with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.

Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.

Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness.

During this night journey I put myself both in feeling and in fact in a blind man's place—the best lesson I ever had to develop deliberation and keenness of touch.

Human effort is not futile, but man fights against the giant forces of Nature in a spirit of humility.

Everything was strange and silent and she seemed to be hundreds of miles away from anyone, but somehow she did not feel lonely at all.

There, too, after a fit of temper, I went to find comfort and to hide my hot face in the cool leaves and grass.

What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!

depend upon it, you will love your native hills the better for being separated from them

Now at least the moon is full, and I walk alone, which is best by night, if not by day always.

The dear privacy and retirement and solitude which winter makes possible!

The doctrines of despair, of spiritual or political tyranny or servitude, were never taught by such as shared the serenity of nature.

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.

Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.

Only spread a fern frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

Thousands of God's wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity

Standing here in the deep, brooding silence all the wilderness seems motionless, as if the work of creation were done.