Quotes About Nature

Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.

Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness.

I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both.

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

Herbalism is a religion of nature, representing a balance of head and heart.

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things.

Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.

He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.

We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.

Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.

Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.

Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.