Quotes About Connection

The Masks Of Love I come in from a walk With you And they ask me If it is raining. I didn't notice But I'll have to give them The right answer Or they'll think I'm crazy.

Life is better lived through two pairs of eyes.

L'amore si fa o si sente, l'amore non si dice, non si reclama e non si commenta l'amore fatto, l'amore ha gli occhi per parlare e le mani per recargli doni. Se gli occhi sfuggono e le mani arrivano vuote, è detto tutto. Due che non hanno niente da dirsi parlano del loro amore reciproco, che intanto st volando altrove. Parlare d'amore significa parlare d'altro

Os olhos conseguem dizer com eloquência desconhecida as palavras, provavelmente porque a dos olhos foi a primeiríssima linguagem com que aprendemos a nos comunicar.

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of those who cannot

We grieve only for what we know.

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process.

A March morning is only as drab as he who walks in it without a glance skyward.

there are two kinds of people: those who can live without wild things & those who cannot.

Then on a still night, when the campfire is low and the Pleiades have climbed over the rimrocks, sit quietly and listen for a wolf to howl, and think hard of everything you have seen and tried to understand. Then you may hear it- a vast pulsing harmony- its score inscribed on a thousand hills, its notes the lives and deaths of plants and animals, its rhythms spanning the seconds and the centuries.

There will always be pigeons in books and in museums, but these are effigies and images, dead to all hardships and to all delights. Book-pigeons cannot dive out of a cloud to make the deer run for cover, or clap their wings in thunderous applause of mast-laden woods. Book-pigeons cannot breakfast on new-mown wheat in Minnesota, and dine on blueberries in Canada. They know no urge of seasons; they feel no kiss of sun, no lash of wind and weather. They live forever by not living at all.

A man may not care for golf and still be human, but the man who does not like to see, hunt, photograph, or otherwise outwit birds or animals is hardly normal. He is supercivilized, and I for one do not know how to deal with him.

The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor the illusion that it is to be sought in theaters. They live on the land, but not by the land.

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech.

Toda protección de la vida salvaje está condenada al fracaso, porque para querer necesitamos ver y acariciar y cuando un número suficiente de gente haya visto y acariciado no quedará nada que querer.

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

The state or conditions into which you lead your wife will be the state or conditions in which you find yourself. You cannot lead your wife into happiness and not get there yourself.

the sense of things remains in the intensity of their names

Y nadie o casi nadie es amado de la manera en que yo lo deseo —exceptuando algunos perros

Don't forget your eyes because I inhabit them

Todo mi ser aspira a una sola cosa: encontrar a quien yo sé, no en el sueño sino en el lugar de los cuerpos tangibles.