- “There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.” ― Anasazi Foundation, The Seven Paths: Changing One’s Way of Walking in the World
- “Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
- “The tree leaves rustled like that noise e-books make when you turn the page.” ― Daniel Nayeri, Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow
- “Bless the animals, their simple ways, for they remind us what is real.” ― Marty Rubin
- “I miss the north side cliff and the waves below, and I miss the way the wind steals your breath like it never belonged to you in the first place.” ― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
- “Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding” ― Jacob Bronowski
- “After a moment, the girl paused in her reading and lifted her head to gaze out over the fence at the sunset and slanting roofs before her in all their sun-drenched glory. Her eyes glowed in the reflection of it all, and then slowly drifted back to the book. Jamie turned and stared at the sunset herself, as if its beauty had been suddenly made clear to her. She sat thinking for a moment, somehow wishing that she knew more about the girl on the other side of the fence. She turned again and looked back through the slats, but the girl had gone.” ― Millie Florence, Honey Butter
- “The world we live in is a product of a grand dream … the dream of a Great Thinker; yes, the Big Poet. That’s why wherever you go, you hear the sweet music flowing about it … the chirping of crickets; the sough of the wind … The whistling of a bird, the gurgle of a stream. The buzz of the bees, the creaks of tree limbs. The chatter of monkeys, the patter of the rain …” ― Godwin Inyang, Gamblers Make Better Lovers
- “Look deep into ‘Nothingness’ & then you will understand the nature of time better.” ― Khalid Masood
- “This world is just a little place, just the red in the sky, before the sun rises, so let us keep fast hold of hands, that when the birds begin, none of us be missing.” ― Emily Dickinson
- “The animals cried for one whole week. Their tears made it unnecessary for rain to fall. And the beautiful green forest now seemed dark and dim.” ― Teresa Whitaker Smith, Blue
- “Who’s caged? Me or the Bird?It’s us in Digital Age,Mark my Word!” ― Somya Kedia
- “The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.” ― Edward Abbey
- “I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but it’s less real than a rock. A dream is real — if it weren’t, it wouldn’t be a dream — but less real than a thing. That’s what being real is like.” ― Álvaro de Campos
- I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility. Jack Kerouac
- “If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb. (Don’t Hesitate)” ― Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
- “Most of us believe that eating meat is natural because humans have hunted and consumed animals for millennia. And it is true that we have been eating meat as part of an omnivorous diet for at least two million years (though for the majority of this time our diet was still primarily vegetarian). But to be fair, we must acknowledge that infanticide, murder, rape, and cannibalism are at least as old as meat eating, and are therefore arguably as ‘natural’–and yet we don’t invoke the history of these acts as justification for them. As with other acts of violence, when it comes to eating meat, we must differentiate between natural and justifiable.” ― Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others
- “Impatience is like an urge to experience” ― Radapar
- “In the other universes, stones and stellar masses are still and quiet. They might emit light, they might glow, but they’re still inanimate. Bakhassa is different. That is why we, Bakhals, love our homeland so much and wish to neither invade the other universes nor let others penetrate through ours. We believe the other species have killed their universes due to their vile codes of conduct. We do not wish the same to happen to ours, because we cherish our beloved home, unlike them. Bakhassa is like a living organism where every star, every particle, every small cell, has a heart and a soul. It is a universe where everything coexists in harmony, and destructions too, serve to create younger matters. We, Bakhals, call our universe ‘Bakhassa’ – the ‘heartbeat’, because everything here breathes, feels, and connects. Unlike the others, this universe is alive, and we follow the rhythm of its heartbeat.” ― Tamuna Tsertsvadze, Galaxy Pirates
- “Is there any sight more exquisite than a field of canary yellow rapeseed on a day of blinding sunlight? The colour appears to transcend structure and live and dance and breathe. Nature reveals its primordial palette and invites insects to pollinate and Man to dare to dream of creating something so vibrant, shockingly intense and timeless. It is the golden ignition of the divine spark of creativity writ large.” ― Stewart Stafford
- “Where is the literature which gives expression to Nature? He would be a poet who could impress the winds and streams into his service, to speak for him; who nailed words to their primitive senses, as farmers drive down stakes in the spring, which the frost has heaved; who derived his words as often as he used them—transplanted them to his page with earth adhering to their roots; whose words were so true and fresh and natural that they would appear to expand like the buds at the approach of spring, though they lay half smothered between two musty leaves in a library,—aye, to bloom and bear fruit there, after their kind, annually, for the faithful reader, in sympathy with surrounding Nature.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walking
- “When the cool wind collapses into my skin,& the raindrops play a soul touching music,I see myself wreathed in smiles,absorbing a moment finesse.I freeze in this bliss,I live for this little while,as these innocent droplets of rain,To me, when it tries to impress.” ― Somya Kedia
- “A good river is nature’s life work in song.” ― Mark Helprin, Freddy and Fredericka
- “There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees; and there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living, whose reason for being might be geographical but whose growth is based on industry, jobs. Detroit has its natural attractions: lakes all over the place, an abundance of trees and four distinct seasons for those who like variety in their weather, everything but hurricanes and earth-quakes. But it’s never been the kind of city people visit and fall in love with because of its charm or think, gee, wouldn’t this be a nice place to live.” ― Elmore Leonard
- “We come into the world as wild things and go out the same way, no matter how many boxes of lead or concrete we sheath about our bones (and the faster we consume the resources that eons of creative wildness have left us, the faster will the wild forces of deterioration pull us down). So it is not enough to look back and admire wildness as our heritage, we must look forward to it as well.” ― David Rains Wallace, Idle Weeds: The Life of an Ohio Sandstone Ridge
- “Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn–that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness–that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.” ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
- “The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.” ― Sherwood Smith
- “I see the world in a unique way, mathematically, as a Landscape Mathematician. When I observe nature, concepts and visualizations form in my brain, and systems start to connect mathematically.” ― Yafreisy Carrero
- “Let’s try something more challenging: for instance, being humane. Compassion is the only way to maintain peace in the world.” ― Shivanshu K. Srivastava
- “When the uniqueness of a place sings to us like a melody, then we will know, at last, what it means to be at home.” ― Paul Gruchow, The Necessity of Empty Places