This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. -- Susan Polis Schutz

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Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action. — David Sobel

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Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health but has left it to us to put these pieces together.— Diane McLaren

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Sketching is a brilliant way to express your ideas.

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And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

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I understand our mornings can be busy; however, if we cannot make time for God now, then when? ― Ashley Ormon

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. ― Henry David Thoreau

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You are the morning smiles and the midnight whispers; how can I forget you without forgetting them. ― M.F. Moonzajer

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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

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We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

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