Quotes About Nature

The makers if the world understood.a world of being, full of unseen energies that animate everything

It's too beautiful for English to explain

suppose that's the way we humans are, thinking too much and listening too little. Paying attention acknowledges that we have something to learn from intelligences other than our own.

It is our work, and our gratitude, that distills the sweetness

a deep, unnamed sadness stemming from estrangement from the rest of Creation, from the loss of relationship.

The wind blows every day, every day the sun shines, every day the waves roll against the shore, and the earth is warm below us. We can understand these renewable sources of energy as given to us, since they are the sources that have powered life on the planet for as long as there has been a planet. We need not destroy the earth to make use of them.

to see you kids eating my berries." I knew the difference: In the fields behind my house, the berries belonged to themselves.

Time is not a river running inexorably to the sea, but the sea itself - its tides that appear and disappear, the fog that rises to become rain in a different river. All things that were will come again.

Mosses are the amphibians of the plant world. They

These berries belong to me," she said, "not to you. I don't want to see you kids eating my berries." I knew the difference: In the fields behind my house, the berries belonged to themselves. At this lady's roadside stand, she sold them for sixty cents a quart.

I came to know that it wasn't naming the source of wonder that mattered, it was wonder itself.

What if you were a teacher but had no voice to speak your knowledge? What if you had no language at all and yet there was something you needed to say? Wouldn't you dance it? Wouldn't you act it out? Wouldn't your every movement tell the story? In time you would be so eloquent that just to gaze upon you would reveal it all. And so it is with these silent green lives.

It has become a place of inspiration and solitude for writers, writers who could be the restoration ecologists of relationship.

humans have the least experience with how to live and thus the most to learn—we must look to our teachers among the other species for guidance. Their wisdom is apparent in the way that they live. They teach us by example. They've been on the earth far longer than we have been, and have had time to figure things out.

I like to imagine that when Skywoman scattered her handful of seeds across Turtle Island, she was sowing sustenance for the body and also for the mind, emotion, and spirit: she was leaving us teachers.

not 'What can we take?' but 'What can we give to Mother Earth?' That's how it's supposed to be

However alluring the thought of warmth, there is no substitute for standing in the rain to waken every sense - senses that are muted within four walls, where my attention would be on me instead of all that is more than me.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

The plants can tell us her story; we need to learn to listen.

the dual powers of destruction and creation that shape the world

One thing I've learned in the woods is that there is no such thing as random. Everything is steeped in meaning, colored by relationships, one thing with another.

After the gods experimented with arrogance, they gave the people of corn humility, and it takes humility to learn from other species.

This was an exercise in personal forestry. But it was also an exercise in the creation of personal art. I could have been painting a landscape or composing a cycle of songs.

It is understood that these gifts have a dual nature, though: a gift is also a responsibility. If the bird's gift is song, then it has a responsibility to greet the day with music.