Quotes About Nature

That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.

when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.

God answered the prayers of animals.

A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.

There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It . . . gives the brain a small vacation.

The Lord is my shepherdI shall not want him for longHe maketh me to lie down in green pasturesand there are no green pasturesHe leadeth me beside still watersand still waters run deep

When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

Nor it is an objection to say that we must understand a prayer if it is to have its true effect. That simply is not the case. Who understands the wisdom of a flower? Yet we can take pleasure in it.

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.

The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.

I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.

We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world

Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth

I think our lack of intimacy with the land has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other. What we perceive as non- human, outside of us, is actually in direct relationship with us.

She's sun and rain, she's fire and ice, a little crazy, but it's nice. And when she gets mad, you best leave her alone, cause she'll rage like a river then she'll beg you to forgive her.

More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture's relationship to nature.

There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.

If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change.