Quotes About Nature

To think about taking our place in nature instead of conquering it is a deep change in the way we see ourselves and the world. It means changing from binary and linear thinking to a cyclical paradigm that is a new declaration of interdependence.

Gender is the remaining caste system that still cuts deep enough, and spreads wide enough, to be confused with the laws of nature. To uncover the difference between what is and what could be, we may need the "Aha!" that comes from exchanging subject for object, the flash of recognition that starts with a smile, the moment of changed viewpoint that turns the world upside down.

You're always the person you were when you were born

Roots can exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots.

Roots cannot exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots.

Wilma said many Native people believed that the earth as a living organism would just one day shrug off the human species that was destroying it— and start over. In a less cataclysmic vision, humans would realize that we are killing our home and each other, and seek out The Way. That's why Native people were guarding it.

Gender is the remaining caste system that still cuts deep enough, and spreads wide enough, to be confused with the laws of nature.

The simple right to reproductive freedom—to sexuality as an expression that is separable from reproduction—is basic to restoring women's power, the balance between women and men, and a balance between humans and nature.

everyday is a good day - because we are part of everything alive

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.

Then came such a melodious whistle, I looked about thinking that a bird had flown into the room.

A predilection for wrong is not characteristic of our nature, it is a characteristic of the nature of life itself.

The nature of things has never been a problem, our perceived nature of them and perception of their nature has always been.

The world is a perfect garden for your seeds.

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

Si je pouvais, nature, être seulement un homme devant toi ; alors, cela vaudrait bien la peine d'être homme !