Quotes About Nurture

A place becomes a home when it sustains you, when it feeds you in body as well as spirit.

We are deluged by information regarding our destruction of the world and hear almost nothing about how to nurture it. It is no surprise then that environmentalism becomes synonymous with dire predictions and powerless feelings. Our natural inclination to do right by the world is stifled, breeding despair when it should be inspiring action.

Women have a natural bond with water, because we are both life bearers

Being a good mother means teaching your children to care for the world

A garden is a nursery for nurturing connection, the soil for cultivation of practical reverence. And its power goes far beyond the garden gate - once you develop a relationship with a little patch of earth, it becomes a seed itself.

People often ask me what one thing I would recommend to restore relationship between land and people. My answer is almost always, "Plant a garden." It's good for the health of the earth and it's good for the health of people. A garden is a nursery for nurturing connection, the soil for cultivation of practical reverence. And its power goes far beyond the garden gate—once you develop a relationship with a little patch of earth, it becomes a seed itself.

There ain't hardly no hurt the woods don't have medicine for.

The earth, that first among good mothers, gives us the gift that we cannot provide ourselves. I hadn't realized that I had come to the lake and said feed me, but my empty heart was fed. I had a good mother. She gives what we need without being asked.

You don't show your love and care by putting what you love behind a fence. You have to be involved.

I don't know how the eighth fire will be lit. But I do know we can gather the tinder that will nurture the flame, that we can be shkitagen to carry the fire, as it was carried to us. Is this not a holy thing, the kindling of this fire? So much depends on the spark.

Mothering is like that, a net of living threads to lovingly encircle what it cannot possibly hold, what will eventually move through it.

A gift creates ongoing relationship. I will write a thank-you note. I will take good care of them

but there's fire you must tend to every day. The hardest one to take care of is the one right here," he says, tapping his finger against his chest. "Your own fire, your spirit. We all carry a piece of that sacred fire within us. We have to honor it and care for it. You are the firekeeper.

I think God made babies cute so we don't eat them.

the best thing you can give a child you love is happy memories and a foundation they can be proud of.

Men should spend less time with guns and more time in childbirth.

Cooking doesn't just nurture the recipient, it nurtures the chef.

The sea is better than a mother. You can love your mother, and she still might leave you. You can love or hate the sea, but it will always be there. Forever. The sea has been the center of her life. It has nurtured her and stolen from her, but it has never left.

A single spark is not enough to warm a room nor is a single seed enough to grow a fruitful crop. Deep love - true heart love - must grow

it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.

When she's in the sea, she's in the womb of the world.

It is our duty to be keepers and managers of the sea. If we protect our wet fields, they will continue to provide for us.

The sea, it is said, is like a mother. The salt water, the pulse and surges of the current, the magnified beat of your heart, and the muffled sounds reverberating through the water together recall the womb.

When she is in the sea, she's in the womb of the world.