Quotes About Nature

The nature of one's own consciousness is the same as the nature of God and Godhead and, therefore, to know God, one must seek to know oneself.

That rooster. That goddamned, big-mouthed cock. I

Yesterday I sat under the hickory tree in the front yard. It's the only place where I find rest and just feel fine. I know fine isn't a lot, but it's rare for me these days. Even when I'm happy, there is something in between me and whatever good news comes my way. It's like eating a butterscotch still sealed in the wrapper.

The tree is untouched by whatever worries we humans fret over. I think about how it was here before I was born and it will be here after we're all gone. Maybe this should make me sad, but it doesn't.

I hear a bird sing or a dog bark or the sound of an axe on wood - and I feel a sense of stability, I feel that I am important, that I am continuous and integral.

He is no towering oak tree with luxuriant branches growing in a land on which Nature has bestowed water and fertility; rather he is like the sayal bushes in the deserts of the Sudan, thick of bark and sharp of thorn, defeating death because they ask so little of life.

With the help of God I shall be kinder than my brother, and shall strive for virtue. It is my duty to aspire above my human nature.'"*

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

It does not even matter that the evil man does not fulfill his promises! The people do not care, do not remind him. It is enough that he is evil, and reflects themselves. The mobs are more comfortable in the climate of malignity than the climate of good, which embarrasses and discomfits them, for it is against their nature.

Forests, hills, mountains, rivers, and green streams had no protection in the face of rapacity.

It was a despair in his heart. Slowly, a numbness began in his feet and crept upward, but his thoughts became more intense. Men were born alone; they lived alone. But most terrible of all, they died alone. And died impotent. The impotence was worse, in the last hour, when a man realized that his life had been one endless insult against life and nature and his fellows. Then there was no consolation. There was only the looking down into the abyss. For this loneliness, there was no hope.

Una hoja seca de roble, larga y amarillenta, cayó del árbol y fue a posarse sobre el seno izquierdo de la joven, destacando en la blancura de su vestido como una salpicadura de sangre. Estaba ligeramente húmeda y se movía rítmicamente

Los hijos deben ser advertidos de la condición de sus semejantes, si no se quiere que mueran en cuerpo o en alma. Los judíos tienen razón cuando declaran que el hombre nace ya pervertido. Sabiendo esto, los niños podrán decirse a sí mismos: "Con la ayuda de Dios trataré de ser mejor que mis hermanos y me esforzaré en alcanzar la virtud. Es mi deber tratar de superar mi naturaleza humana".

Remember we were sitting there by the water.

My father! The Great Spirit is my father! The earth is my mother—and on her bosom I will recline.

If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them, you will not know them, And what you do not know you will fear. What one fears one destroys. — Chief Dan George

The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual.

Rivers have an ancient symbolic connection to animal life, creation and the flow of time. Rivers are places where animals will gather to drink.

We find that magical creation is the force of life inherent in all things.

Every animal is a gateway to the phenomenal world of the human spirit. What most fail to realize is that what they think of animals reflects the way they think of themselves.

I've been bathing in the poem of the star-steeped milky flowing sea,

Are we more fully realized when we minimize the physical part of our natures? And that, you have to agree, is a profound question.

Neil even knows that by being beyond God's awareness, he is not loved by God in return. This doesn't affect his feelings either, because unconditional love asks nothing, not even that it be returned. And though it's been many years that he has been in Hell, beyond the awareness of God, he loves Him still. That is the nature of true devotion.

The tendency towards equilibrium is not a trait peculiar to our universe but inherent in all universes.