Quotes About Nature

How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?

everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift.

If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.

With the rain, falls the wisdom of heaven.

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.

Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: That's the cycle of life. You may think you're going to die, but you live on in me. It's thanks to you that I'm alive, because I can breathe. It's also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing.

In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you.... ......... I will always remember you, and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the window, and all the things we'll always have because we cannot possess them

The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can't move.

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul. On the other hand, when the sun appeared, the children would come out to play in the streets, and everyone was happy that it was such a lovely day, and then I would feel terrible, as if that display of exuberance in which i could not participate was somehow unfair.

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.

Lie down on the ground and feel the planet's heart beating.

Don't forget:beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies.

The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.

The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.

Flowers teach us that nothing is permanent: not their beauty, not even the fact that they will inevitably wilt, because they will still give new seeds. Remember this when you feel joy, pain, or sadness. Everything passes, grows old, dies, and is reborn.

When we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little while. The spring returns and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.

All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will see in it all the marvels of creation. Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World, and it will one day return there.

We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.

That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.

No one can posses an afternoon of rain beating against the window, or the serenity of a sleeping child, or the magical moment when the waves break on the rocks. No one can posses the beautiful things of this Earth, but we can know them and love them. It is through such moments that God reveals himself to mankind.

Even the tallest trees are able to grow from tiny seeds like these. Remember this, and try not to rush time.