A Collection of Quotes About Nature
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A Collection of Quotes About Nature
We forget that nature itself is one vast miracle transcending the reality of night and nothingness. We forget that each one of us in his personal life repeats that miracle. —Loren Eiseley, The Firmament of Time
I don't think there is a way for those who work in service to the earth—for environmentalists, ecologists—to really woo our culture back into a reciprocal or sustainable relation with the land until we draw folks back to our senses, because our sensing bodies are our direct contact with the rest of the natural world. It is not by being abstract intellects that we are going to fall in love again with the rest of nature. It's by beginning to honor and value our direct sensory experience: the tastes and smells in the air, the feel of the wind as it caresses the skin, the feel of the ground under our feet as we walk upon it. And how much easier it is to feel that ground if you allow yourself to sense that the ground itself is feeling your steps as you walk upon it. —David Abram
Listening as a way of doing beauty. We have so much to learn from listening and being present to nature, because of the way that the natural world coexists and how it can teach us that we are all in this kind of ecosystem of togetherness. —Minna Salami
Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin. —Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. —Hermann Hesse
If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand. —Buddha
Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her! —Henry David Thoreau
Lost
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
—David Wagoner
“Wonderful how completely everything in wild nature fits into us, as if truly part and parent of us. The sun shines not on us but in us... The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song...” —John Muir from Mountain Thoughts
“We have never believed we are stewards of the land. We are stewards of a way of life—in relationship to the land.” —Sherri Mitchell, indigenous rights activist
I like to experience the Universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. The tree outside is life… The whole of nature is life… The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation. —Albert Einstein
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. —Khalil Gibran
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. —Margaret Atwood
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. —e.e. cummings
