Quotes About Connection

For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.

It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.

As never before, our world needs warmth in its cold, metallic heart, warmth to go on and face what has been made of human life, warmth to remain humane and kind.

The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.

The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot.

El mundo de hoy está exangüe por la falta de cosas elementales, de fuego ante las manos, de agua manando de la tierra, de aire, de tierra amada bajo los pies. Cuanto más tiempo llevaba allí, más ávido estaba de conocer esta costa y compartir su vida misteriosa y elemental.

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.

After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

Sir Henry fixed him with a keen eye. 'Odd name, Tom Skatt - eh?' 'Thats right' 'You don't think we could be related?' Tom looked up at his great-great-great-uncle and smiled. 'I don't think so' 'No,' grinned Sir Henry "no, of course not

Love dies not nor can lovers die; And though vast worlds between them lie, Th' intelligencing current thrills From each to each the thought love wills.

She pondered: Was it worth the feelings of sadness and melancholy to make a friend and then lose him? Would she rather not have the heartache of losing a friend and not have the memory of friendship? No, she decided, no.

Others love you for their own sakes. I love you for your own self, And you, you flee from Me. Dearly beloved! You can not treat Me fairly, for if you approach Me, It is because I have approached you.

my vision of Him is His vision of me

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

What is the good of having a nice house without a decent planet to put it on?

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

If we were required to know the position of the fruit dots or the character of the indusiumís, nothing could be easier to ascertain, but if it is required that you be affected by ferns, that they amount to anything, signify anything to you, that they be another sacred scripture and revelation to you, help to redeem your life, this end is not so easily accomplished.

There can be no very black misery to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

My friend is one who takes me for what I am.

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.