Quotes About Nature

The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom.

I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.

We are reducing the number of relationships. We are slowly but surely consuming the massive reserves of energy that have been accumulating and are stored in the ecosystems.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

The roots of our ecological crises are axiomatic: they lie in our belief and value structures which shape our relationship with nature, with each other and the lifestyles we lead.

It is also vital that our relationship with nature and the environment be included in our education systems. This is not longer something cute or nice to do; it is now a singular imperative.

Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.

All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment at a distance.

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

The Earth spins once a day. It goes around the sun once a year. The moon goes round the earth every 28 days. Your heart beats in a rhythm particular only to you. Everything has its drumbeat and everything contributes to the dance. You've just got to know when to lead and when to follow.

As I remember them, late summer Saturdays were always hot, dry, and colored a deep green. I know now some Saturdays must have been gray; rain must have made water princesses dance in gutter puddles, as my grandmother assured me they did, each time a drop plunked down. But I will never really believe it rained on Saturdays, for I can remember only the sun playing with bits of broken glass in the vacant lot next to my house and myself running all day up and down the block like a heathen.

I never watched the sun when it was overhead dragging the day after it.

I was half mad with beauty on that day.

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.

everything made by man's hands has a form, which must be either beautiful or ugly; beautiful if it is in accord with Nature, and helps her; ugly if it is discordant with Nature, and thwarts her; it cannot be indifferent...

How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don't care for the landscape itself?

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

La selva sigue pegada a la piel aunque uno ya este lejos, la fuerza del río sigue presente cuando hemos sido su juguete por tantos meses; es como si el tiempo que fluye fuera apenas un recuerdo del río, como si las horas presurosas fueran todavía sus orillas