The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity, and by these I shall not regulate my propositions. And some see no nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. –William Blake

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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ― Henry David Thoreau

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If you look in the mirror and you see a fat person, don't tell yourself that you need to lose a couple of pounds. Tell the truth. You're fucking fat! It's okay. ― David Goggins

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Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name.

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It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see. Henry David Thoreau

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

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The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after. ― Henry David Thoreau

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Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined. ― Henry David Thoreau

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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. - MARCUS GARVEY

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