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Quotes About Connection

Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses?
~ Norman MacCaig
We both loved the birds and animals and plants. We both felt far happier out of doors. I felt a peace in nature that I could never find in the human world, as you know.
~ Tracy Rees, Amy Snow
To reciprocate God's love is to have his love nature
~ Sunday Adelaja
Plants and Books are silent Friends to Mankind.The former grows silently to let you live.The later grows you silently to 'live
~ Sridhar Movva
As he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature.
~ John Shelby Spong
Every New Year must be celebrated at the heart of nature - in the middle of a forest or by the side of a lake under billions of stars - because it is nature who has made our existence possible!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.
~ Adam Nicolson
The world was incomprehensibly intricate, and yet this forest made a simple sense in her heart that she felt nowhere else.
~ David Guterson
When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We may be just a drop in the ocean, but even the ocean envies the depth of our love.
~ Maria Elena, Eternal Youth
We must believe there are places where tranquility still exists and nature is given back her power to speak
~ Nanette L. Avery
She had so deep a kinship with the trees, so intuitive a sympathy with leaf and flower, that it seemed as if the blood in her veins was not slow-moving human blood, but volatile sap.
~ Mary Webb, Gone to Earth
Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.
~ Theodor Adorno
The earth has its music for those who will listen.
~ George Santayana
To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)
~ Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
The man stood alone by the hive. On impulse he put his palm against the wood, as if feeling for a pulse.
~ Laline Paull, The Bees
Living in sterile man-made environments that are disconnected from nature should be expected to lead to sickness.
~ Steven Magee
More than the disappearing trees and roses, it's the human tendency to suppress the 'Natural Voice' of the 'Nature's Man' which is sorrowful.
~ Ashutosh Gupta
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
A word mother, means a world to me.
~ Auliq-Ice
Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth...
~ Keri Hulme, The Bone People
A poem is a 'line' between any two points in creation.
~ Charles Olson
Mother Earth reintroduced me to my people.
~ Anasazi Foundation
Mother Earth has never been more crowded, yet her inhabitants have never been more lonely.
~ Anasazi Foundation