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Earth Day & Nature Cryptograms
Long before Earth Day existed as a calendar event, writers and naturalists were putting into words what many people feel but struggle to articulate: that the natural world is not a backdrop to human life but the foundation of it. These cryptograms gather the most luminous observations about nature — John Muir in the Sierra Nevada, Rachel Carson watching the tide, Thoreau at Walden Pond, Chief Seattle speaking about the land. They are puzzles that feel peaceful to decode, and whose messages linger long after the cipher is solved.
88 puzzles23 easy47 medium18 hard
George Eliot
Nature · 68 letters
James Whistler
Nature · 91 letters
Rabindranath Tagore
Nature · 61 letters
William Wordsworth
Nature · 51 letters
Lao Tzu
Nature · 45 letters
Chief Seattle
Nature · 92 letters
Ralph Nader
Nature · 74 letters
John Muir
Nature · 93 letters
Rachel Carson
Nature · 50 letters
E.E. Cummings
Nature · 71 letters
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Nature · 115 letters
Sylvia Plath
Nature · 95 letters
Albert Einstein
Nature · 62 letters
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Nature · 46 letters
Rachel Carson
Nature · 117 letters
Vincent van Gogh
Nature · 65 letters
Frank Lloyd Wright
Nature · 56 letters
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Inspirational · 108 letters
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Inspirational · 108 letters
Galileo Galilei
Nature · 124 letters
Toni Morrison
Nature · 99 letters
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational · 75 letters
John Muir
Nature · 50 letters
John Muir
Nature · 80 letters
Chief Seattle
Nature · 57 letters
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational · 59 letters
Claude Monet
Nature · 70 letters
Thich Nhat Hanh
Nature · 41 letters
Henry David Thoreau
Freedom · 63 letters
Rabindranath Tagore
Nature · 53 letters
William Butler Yeats
Nature · 68 letters
William Wordsworth
Nature · 40 letters
Henry Miller
Nature · 86 letters
John Muir
Nature · 32 letters
Georges Simenon
Nature · 54 letters
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational · 67 letters
Albert Einstein
Nature · 58 letters
Eradicator
Nature · 75 letters
John Keats
Nature · 135 letters
Khalil Gibran
Nature · 41 letters
Joseph Campbell
Nature · 59 letters
Claude Monet
Nature · 58 letters
Henry Ward Beecher
Nature · 62 letters
Walt Whitman
Nature · 56 letters
Edward Abbey
Nature · 53 letters
Henry David Thoreau
Success · 55 letters
Edward Abbey
Nature · 73 letters
Bill Bryson
Nature · 116 letters
Rachel Carson
Nature · 91 letters
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Humor · 91 letters
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage · 61 letters
Aristotle
Nature · 49 letters
Linda Hogan
Nature · 116 letters
Leigh Hunt
Nature · 62 letters
Vincent van Gogh
Nature · 47 letters
Henry David Thoreau
Nature · 40 letters
Robert Frost
Nature · 74 letters
Claude Monet
Nature · 78 letters
Robert G. Ingersoll
Nature · 64 letters
Henry David Thoreau
Nature · 43 letters
Rachel Carson
Nature · 62 letters
Bill Bryson
Nature · 84 letters
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage · 40 letters
John Muir
Nature · 55 letters
Linda Hogan
Nature · 62 letters
Enya
Nature · 54 letters
Henry Ward Beecher
Nature · 62 letters
Chief Seattle
Nature · 43 letters
L. Wolfe Gilbert
Nature · 80 letters
Chief Seattle
Nature · 46 letters
Henry David Thoreau
Nature · 48 letters
John Muir
Nature · 61 letters
Native American Proverb
Nature · 63 letters
Linda Hogan
Nature · 127 letters
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nature · 75 letters
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Nature · 56 letters
Rainer Maria Rilke
Nature · 75 letters
Alice Walker
Nature · 46 letters
Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational · 65 letters
Mahatma Gandhi
Nature · 59 letters
Donald Hall
Nature · 55 letters
Edward Abbey
Nature · 51 letters
Mary Davis
Nature · 42 letters
Leigh Hunt
Nature · 75 letters
Edward Abbey
Freedom · 63 letters
Jane Austen
Nature · 70 letters
Bill Bryson
Nature · 97 letters
Chief Seattle
Nature · 43 letters