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Quotes About Connection

With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space - becoming an integral part of the experience itself.
~ Bernie Krause
How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.
~ Maria Montessori
A man is related to all nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
~ Alice Walker
Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man.
~ Jill Johnston
Our purpose is simple... To Love To love each other, to love all life and to love our earth.
~ Anthony D. Williams
To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.
~ Russell Sherman
Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.
~ Arie de Geus
... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.
~ Michael Pollan
See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
~ Socrates
Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.
~ Frederick William Robertson
[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.
~ Claire McCaskill
Our female bodies are connected with nature just like a garden.
~ Christiane Northrup
Since we are part of nature...we empathize deeply with its ways... they serve as models of how things should be.
~ Lawrence Halprin
Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.
~ Patton Oswalt
We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.
~ Bob Brown
Being alone in nature is another way to feel the joy of beauty - and oneness with a greater whole.
~ Jude Bijou
I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.
~ Linda Ronstadt
We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.
~ Diane Ackerman
Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity.
~ Paula Modersohn-Becker
The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean.
~ Erich Fromm
It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.
~ Aldo Leopold