Quotes About Nature

We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.

Every once in a while, take the scenic route.

It is what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over.

Art is as natural as sunshine and as vital as nourishment.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.

Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.

When going for a run, I pick fresh air, openness, and scenery of the outdoors over a treadmill every time.

Animals, like us, have rich and spacious interiors. They contain inner landscapes: desert places and lonely canyons, cliffs of madness and rivers or serene awareness that merge in tranquil seas.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flower to bloom?

Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we can't hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing — nothing except our original nature, pure awareness.

Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.

Sunset is the opening music of the night.