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[
- {"category":"nature","content":"The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.","attribution":"John Muir"},
- {"category":"nature","content":"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.","attribution":"John Muir"},
- {"category":"nature","content":"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.","attribution":"Henry David Thoreau, Walden"},
- {"category":"nature","content":"The Amazon rainforest is home to an estimated ten percent of all known species on Earth, making it one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet.","attribution":"Nature"},
- {"category":"nature","content":"Coral reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean floor, yet they support roughly a quarter of all marine species.","attribution":"Nature"},
- {"category":"nature","content":"Migratory birds can travel thousands of miles between breeding and wintering grounds, navigating using the sun, stars, and the Earth's magnetic field.","attribution":"Nature"},
- {"category":"nature","content":"A single mature tree can absorb around twenty two kilograms of carbon dioxide per year, making forests an important part of regulating the planet's climate.","attribution":"Nature"},
- {"category":"nature","content":"Bees pollinate roughly a third of the crops humans rely on for food, making them essential to global agriculture despite their small size.","attribution":"Nature"},
- {"category":"nature","content":"The deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench, plunges nearly eleven kilometers below the surface, deeper than Mount Everest is tall.","attribution":"Nature"},
- {"category":"nature","content":"Deserts are defined by low precipitation rather than temperature, which is why some of the coldest places on Earth, including parts of Antarctica, are technically deserts.","attribution":"Nature"},
- {"category":"nature","content":"Mycorrhizal fungi form partnerships with the roots of most plants, helping them absorb water and nutrients in exchange for sugars produced by photosynthesis.","attribution":"Nature"},
- {"category":"nature","content":"Wolves live and hunt in structured packs, usually led by a breeding pair, and communicate through howls that can be heard for several kilometers.","attribution":"Nature"},
- {"category":"nature","content":"The Sahara Desert was once a green landscape with lakes and grasslands, before a shift in the Earth's orbit altered rainfall patterns thousands of years ago.","attribution":"Nature"},
- {"category":"nature","content":"Rivers shape the landscape around them over thousands of years, carving canyons and depositing sediment that forms fertile floodplains.","attribution":"Nature"},
- {"category":"nature","content":"A rainforest canopy can be so dense that less than two percent of sunlight reaches the forest floor below.","attribution":"Nature"}
+ {"category":"nature","attribution":"John Muir","content":"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."},
+ {"category":"nature","attribution":"John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra","content":"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."},
+ {"category":"nature","attribution":"John Muir","content":"The mountains are calling and I must go."},
+ {"category":"nature","attribution":"Rachel Carson, Silent Spring","content":"In nature nothing exists alone."},
+ {"category":"nature","attribution":"Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder","content":"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."},
+ {"category":"nature","attribution":"Henry David Thoreau, Walden","content":"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life."},
+ {"category":"nature","attribution":"Henry David Thoreau, Walking","content":"In wildness is the preservation of the world."},
+ {"category":"nature","attribution":"Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac","content":"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community."},
+ {"category":"nature","attribution":"Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac","content":"There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot."},
+ {"category":"nature","attribution":"David Attenborough","content":"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement, of visual beauty, of intellectual interest."},
+ {"category":"nature","attribution":"David Attenborough","content":"No one will protect what they don't care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced."},
+ {"category":"nature","attribution":"Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature","content":"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life which nature cannot repair."},
+ {"category":"nature","attribution":"Mary Oliver","content":"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"},
+ {"category":"nature","attribution":"Wendell Berry","content":"The earth is what we all have in common."},
+ {"category":"nature","attribution":"Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass","content":"In some Native languages the term for plants translates to those who take care of us."},
+ {"category":"nature","attribution":"Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle","content":"The land is one great wild, untidy, luxuriant hothouse, made by nature for herself."},
+ {"category":"nature","attribution":"Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur","content":"There lives the dearest freshness deep down things."},
+ {"category":"nature","attribution":"Gary Snyder","content":"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home."},
+ {"category":"nature","attribution":"Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire","content":"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit."},
+ {"category":"nature","attribution":"Chief Seattle","content":"The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth."}
]