- “I want to see everything now. And while none of it will be me when it goes in, after a while it’ll all gather together inside and it’ll be me. Look at the world out there, my God, my God, look at it out there, outside me, out there beyond my face and the only way to really touch it is to put it where it’s finally me, where it’s in the blood, where it pumps around a thousand times ten thousand a day. I get hold of it so it’ll never run off. I’ll hold on to the world tight some day. I’ve got one finger on it now; that’s a beginning.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- “Go forth under the open sky, and list to Nature’s teachings.” ― William Cullen Bryant
- “She’s a little lost girl in her own little world,She looks so happy but she seems so sad, oh yeah,Oh, oh, yeah.She’s a little lost girl in her own little world,I’d like to help her, I’d like to try, oh yeah,Oh, oh yeah.She talks to birds, she talks to angels,She talks to trees, she talks to bees,She don’t talk to me.Talks to the rainbows and to the seas,She talks to trees,She don’t talk to me.” ― Joey Ramone
- “Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.” ― Ivan Turgenev
- “I find sanctuaries when looking up and when looking down. A humble ochre leaf swimming in a puddle elicits as much awe from me as a soaring cathedral. One was built to evoke reverence; the other is quiet and humble, yet to me, both are achingly beautiful. In them, I see the divine light of warmth and love. I feel lifted, comforted. I appreciate their presence in my life, reminders that I am home everywhere I go.” ― Amy Masterman, Sacred Sensual Living: 40 Words for Praying with All Your Senses
- “And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles.Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain.You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.” ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
- “Once in a while i am struckall over again… by just how blue the sky appears .. on wind-played autumn mornings, blue enoughto bruise a heart.” ― Sanober Khan
- “Democracy or the democratic state is the natural state for a primitive society where the diversity of conditions is not very distinct; or maybe in an arbitrary state of cells where social conditions are considered having no report to political functions. . . . We therefore find democracy sometimes at the origins of a society or in their decline but rarely at the height of their historic development” ― François-René
- “We walked in silence. Nature can cancel thought. We needed to walk and there was nothing more to say.” ― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story
- “When you stop eating meat, you feel light from inside. When you abstain from inflicting cruelty on animals, you will no longer be an agent of pain.” ― Shivanshu K. Srivastava
- “The only way a society of diverse people can survive without tearing itself apart over differences in nature is by accepting that ALL people are different, and that no single one of us is more or less deserving of decent treatment, compassion, legal and ethical equality, justice, life, or love, than any other.” ― Christina Engela, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul
- “Why is it that a worm can regrow most of its body, but we can’t replace so much as a finger? I am left with the troubling conclusion that the worm’s survival may, in the grand scheme of things, be more important than my own.” ― Amy Stewart, The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
- “Nature abhors a gradient.” ― Eric Schneider, Dorion Sagan
- “The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposed-to-be conquerors, rolling the dikes, rolling the houses, rolling the people in the houses along with other timbers. The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel.” ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
- “Night doesn’t fall for my eyesBut my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes.Beyond my thinking and having any thoughtsThe night falls concretelyAnd the shining of stars exists like it had weight.” ― Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
- “It was as if [highly sensitive subjects] found it natural to look beyond their cultural expectations to how things “really are.” ― Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
- “Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.” ― Dejan Stojanovic
- “A people is nature’s roundabout way of getting six or seven great men. –Yes: and then of getting around them.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
- “As to when I shall visit civilization, it will not be soon, I think. I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and starsprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. Do you blame me then for staying here, where I feel that I belong and am one with the world around me? It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty” ― Everett Reuss
- “Nature,” on the original planet, had meant what was not controlled by human beings. “Nature” was what was substantially previous to control, the raw material for control, or what had escaped from control. Thus the areas of Dichew where few people lived, quadrants that were undesirably dry or cold or steep, had been called “nature,” “wilderness,” or “nature preserves.” In these areas lived the animals, which were also called “natural” or “wild.” And all the “animal” functions of the human body were therefore “natural” — eating, drinking, pissing, shitting, sex, reflex, sleep, shouting, and going off like a siren when somebody licked your clitoris.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
- “What we need are transitions that recognize the hard limits on extraction and that simultaneously create new opportunities for people to improve quality of life and derive pleasure outside the endless consumption cycle, whether through publicly funded art and urban recreation or access to nature through new protections for wilderness. Crucially, that means making sure that shorter work weeks allow people the time for this kind of enjoyment, and that they are not trapped in the grind of overwork requiring the quick fixes of fast food and mind-numbing distractions.” ― Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
- “All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.” ― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- “…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
- “Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don’t know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.” ― George Eliot, Adam Bede
- “There is a way of entering the forest when the breeze of the trees becomes your guide; there is a way of approaching the self without a heavy-hand, when the heart-mind slowly becomes unburdened by the past, where the body listening with the whole of itself finally becomes attuned to all the subtle happenings in the realm not yet stained by the faithless world of man. — from “Forest Bathing,” The School of Soft-Attention” ― Hawk of the Pines (Frank LaRue Owen)
- “A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.” ― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
- “Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.” ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
- “What is this life if, full of care,We have no time to stand and stare.No time to stand beneath the boughsAnd stare as long as sheep or cows.No time to see, when woods we pass,Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.No time to see, in broad daylight,Streams full of stars, like skies at night.No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,And watch her feet, how they can dance.No time to wait till her mouth canEnrich that smile her eyes began.A poor life this if, full of care,We have no time to stand and stare.- Leisure” ― W.H. Davies, Common Joys and Other Poems
- “It is not a war, it is a lesson of life (the second part)………We believed, in our ignorance and arrogance, that we can be invincible, that we are superior to any other living being on the face of the earth. Is it nature? I broke it down and raped her, in the name of the god of money, convinced that Mother Earth did not suffer the blow, to exploit it forever. I took, stole, with outstretched hands, torn, cut, shattered, breaking down everything that appeared in our path. We have sickened the Earth and now its screams of pain are resounding in the global reach of a pandemic that, for us, people have the taste of catastrophe.And now we find ourselves stopped, beaten by a life lesson that we did not expect, we consider ourselves unjust, we consider ourselves at war.Existence is like this, first it launches small signals like bells, signals that we have always ignored and then finds a way to be heard with its increasingly loud sirens. She tells us that, at any price, she will be able to convince you that good and evil are not the case, that the time has come to realize that, as a living species, we are close to self-destruction.The time has come to realize that the countdown has begun, the safety is almost completely consumed, andthis is the last call. For you, for me, for all the creatures that populate the Earth.And for this tormented planet, whose very life depends on our survival. ..New forms of subjectivity must be promoted if we are to aspire to social and epochal changes. It must be understood that freedom is not the choice of car color, that a hug is never ensured, (a doctor told me a phrase that “stuck” in my mind during the senior specialization in a certain medical field. He told me, “You see, there are people coming to us and they wouldn’t need three pills a day, but three hugs a day.”and distances are not measured in kilometers. We are removed even when we are close in this society where we talk without listening, we eat without tasting, we make love without feeling, we walk without seeing, a society in which we breathe sniffing, darkened by our blind beliefs.Nature has its rules and follows an unknown and sometimes violent design. The world continues and we, the ordinary mortals, have only the power to try to understand, to change our approach, our beliefs, our system. Although it is difficult, very difficult, but we have no other option. The truth, dear gentlemen, is that nothing will be the same as before unless we learn the lesson, otherwise everything will return exactly as before, with our bad ancestral practices and with the awareness that, again, humanity will miss an opportunity to to improve.” ― Corina Abdulahm Negura
- “Limitations are not a dead end.” ― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice