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Quotes About Awareness

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
~ Henry Adams
Whatever happens at all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely.
~ Henry Adams
Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
~ Henry Adams
Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.
~ Henry Beston
It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.
~ Henry Beston
Nature is part our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man. When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness and integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity.
~ Henry Beston
animals] are not brethren, they are not underlings [but beings] gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear [;] other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendid and travail of the earth
~ Henry Beston
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.
~ Henry Beston
The time will come when Winter will ask you what you were doing all Summer.
~ Henry Clay
my vision of Him is His vision of me
~ Henry Corbin
When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There can be no very black misery to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.
~ Henry David Thoreau
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Oh, one world at a time!
~ Henry David Thoreau
"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."
~ Henry David Thoreau
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.
~ Henry David Thoreau