Quotes About Nature

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.

Take the time to smell the roses. Sooner or later, you'll inhale a bee and die.

I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.

Aspen is the life to live, see how much there is to give. See how strongly you believe, see how much you may receive.

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

we are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.

Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.

To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.

Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

I sing the body electric.

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own.

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

A man is a god in ruins.