Quotes About Connection

Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.

I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.

Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.

Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate positive vibrations.

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.

More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and closer.

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.