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George Santayana

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Nature

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Finding joy in all the different seasons means appreciating variety and change, rather than fixating on just one ideal time. This mindset brings more lasting happiness because it embraces the full cycle of nature instead of longing for a single perfect moment.

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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

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.