Quotes About Nature

Do you believe in God, Martin?'And he answered, 'Yes, because of His trees. Don't you?''I'm not sure...''Oh, my poor, blind Stephen! Look again, go on looking until you do believe.

...though the Elders are connected to the Great Spirit, they are still only elves.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

We Love Water. We Thank Water. We Respect Water. We Are All Water. We Are All One.

You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.

Having respect for animals makes us better humans.

Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.

The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.

We are children of the Earth...respect your mother.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

I'm in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it's difficult to analyze love when you're in it.

The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.

Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can't help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcooked sausage.

But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?

When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us.

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

If each one of us starts thinking, learning, and understanding more about water and the fact that we are water-based ourselves, then we can start to love, thank, and respect water in our daily lives.