Nature is not a place to visit, it is home. – Gary Snyder

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Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.

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Your life is not a problem to be solved, but an adventure to be enjoyed. You are doing better than you think.

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Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making. - John Rhys-Davies

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... ― Henry David Thoreau

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Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail. ― Henry David Thoreau

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If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

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He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

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We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own and other's people's models, learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.

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