- “I don’t trust or understand the things that people make or come up with. I feel safer with nature. It’s just there, for everyone to see, touch, taste, smell, and hear. There’s a simplicity to it that puts me at ease.” ― Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth
- “A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.” ― Marco Pierre White
- “And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.” ― Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
- “Focus on nature to feel free.” ― Anna Sarah
- “I am listening to the wind, to the voice in the wind telling me to write it all down. So I do.” ― Kwame Dawes, Wheels
- “I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.” ― William Shakespeare
- “Mindfulness is the moment-to-moment comprehension of all experiences and conditions presented to us in real time. In the context of inner work, time is the distance between what we believe to be true and our spiritual fulfillment achieved through the experiential, incontrovertible realization of actual truth.” ― Rob Taylor, The Irreducible Primary: A Dialogue on Nature, Spirituality, and the Human Condition
- “It’s happening, just from the warming of the sun, the road and green praire farmland and buffeting wind coming together. And soon it is nothing but beautiful warmth and wind and speed and sun down the empty road. The last chills of the morning are thawed by the warm air. Wind and more sun and more smooth road.” ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance and Siddhartha 2 Books Collection Set
- “Higher desire and prices to live in overcrowded pollution. Lesser desire and prices to live in serene nature. It doesn’t make sense regardless of what you say about opportunities.” ― Torron-Lee Dewar
- “There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.” ― J. Robert Oppenheimer
- “He recalled another thing the old woman had said about a world being the sum of many things – the people, the dirt, the growing things, the moons, the tides, the suns – the unknown sum called nature, a vague summation without any sense of the now. And he wondered: What is the now?” ― Frank Herbert, Dune
- “When the world shifts its focus on heart over mind, we will finally experience a beautiful global village for our children.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.” ― J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals
- “Sleeping In The ForestI thought the earth remembered me,she took me back so tenderly,arranging her dark skirts, her pocketsfull of lichens and seeds.I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,nothing between me and the white fire of the starsbut my thoughts, and they floated light as mothsamong the branches of the perfect trees.All night I heard the small kingdomsbreathing around me, the insects,and the birds who do their work in the darkness.All night I rose and fell, as if in water,grappling with a luminous doom. By morningI had vanished at least a dozen timesinto something better.” ― Mary Oliver, Twelve Moons
- “(…) ik zat opgescheept met zoveel ik’s dat ik soms ‘s avonds een ommetje door het bos ging maken om even alleen te zijn.” ― Paolo Cognetti, Il ragazzo selvatico
- “Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring, And all the flowers that in the springtime grow, And dusty roads, and thistles, and the slow Rising of the round moon, all throats that sing The summer through, and each departing wing, And all the nests that the bared branches show, And all winds that in any weather blow, And all the storms that the four seasons bring. You go no more on your exultant feet Up paths that only mist and morning knew, Or watch the wind, or listen to the beat Of a bird’s wings too high in air to view,— But you were something more than young and sweet And fair,—and the long year remembers you.” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems
- “All endeavors are part of the greater journey” ― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
- “The mighty drought could not decimate our rootshidden under the soil from years of sufferingWe were plants; we learnt to survive!” ― Avijeet Das
- “I have the mind of Christ. The best life you could ever live is the one that your creator destined you for. The one He made you for. He has given us everything we need ……… to become like Him. To reach to your potentials. Worship Him in spirit and in truth.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Hold fast to the mountain, take root in a broken-up bluff, grow stronger after tribulations, and withstand the buffering wind from all directions.” ― Zheng Xie
- If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. Rainer Maria Rilke
- “The wise live in the forest.” ― Steven Magee
- “The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn’t like the country and never looks at it.” ― Jules Renard
- “The only company you should enjoy most is nature’s company, because nature has a way of revealing your individuality.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
- At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned. Cormac McCarthy
- “At the bottom of the food chain, cockroaches do not fear being stepped on. Being crushed is part of their DNA, it is part and parcel of their existence. Then at the top, fierce humans, they are accustomed to fighting and battling, they live and breathe it constantly. But then you get those in the middle, the house cats, which sneakily live off of the higher species, never having to venture out into the wild for their next meal, chasing mice as they see fit and then returning to the lap of their master for treats and neck rubs.” ― Michael James Payne, Scales of Happiness
- “The time has come to give back our heart to itself, to light the spark to eye, to stay vigil with yearning on lipsso, open your wings, beat your feathers and will rising again on the heaven, on the heaven which only is higher than the heaven,” ― Alexis Karpouzos, The self-criticism of science: The contemporary philosophy of science & the problem of the scientific consciousness.
- “Creation is a nightmare spectacular taking place on a planet that has been soaked for hundreds of millions of years in the blood of all its creatures.” ― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
- “It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.” ― Michel de Montaigne, Cannibales
- “Which do you think is more valuable to humanity?a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the incontrovertible fact that their actions are completely dictated by the laws of physics as instantiated in our bodies, brains and environments? That is, engaging in the honored philosophical practice of showing that our notion of “free will” can be compatible with determinism?orb. Telling people, based on our scientific knowledge of physics, neurology, and behavior, that our actions are predetermined rather than dictated by some ghost in our brains, and then sussing out the consequences of that conclusion and applying them to society? Of course my answer is b).” ― Jerry A. Coyne