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Susan Orlean

Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.

Susan Orlean

Nature

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Susan Orlean is saying that the simple, often-overused ideas about connecting with nature—like understanding the changing seasons and living peacefully with the environment—are actually accurate. She acknowledges that these common sayings, despite sounding cliché, genuinely reflect the real experience of being close to nature.

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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.