Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.

Out of doors one becomes abstract and impersonal.One’s individuality absolutely leaves one.

If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about...

Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is.

Nature is technological relic of ancient civilizations.

To me, Mother Nature isn’t nearly as scary as human nature.

Night-time. Why is it, I wonder… Always, always it is at night whenThe fury of a hurricane makes itself felt. Perhaps it is because the spirit of the storm Delights in the darkness, for there...

In the heart of every apple is an entire orchard waiting only to be planted.

When man chooses to develop his innate power of communication with nature and therefore hear the voice, all will be right with the world – we will be as one. What you have been able...

Elk were mating now – The males were fighting, and they had to chase the females, which depleted the fat that both sexes had accumulated over the summer and thereby diminished their chances of surviving...

With the utmost love and attention the man who walks must study and observe every smallest living thing, be it a child, a dog, a fly, a butterfly, a sparrow, a worm, a flower, a...

Summer coming like a car from down the highway.

Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

I’m proud to be a freak of nature.

The problem with driving around Iceland is that you’re basically confronted by a new soul-enriching, breath-taking, life-affirming natural sight every five goddamn minutes. It’s totally exhausting.

The one who cries, is always the one who is in need.

I am just like you,Destined to play my part.And leave,In the nature of my departure at least,Some kind of sweet message behindIn the fathomless pattern I make.

The whole tradition of [oral] story telling is endangered by modern technology. Although telling stories is a very fundamental human attribute, to the extent that psychiatry now often treats ‘narrative loss’ — the inability to...

Our love was a river, always changing under the mercy of nature’s elements, but we continued to flow, even when we trickled.

It is not in my nature to be interested in the living.But there are many things, I have found, that defy nature.

You love flowers, but you cut them. You love animals, but you eat them. You tell me you love me, so now I’m scared!

It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says “I did it”.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

We do not need to plan or devise a “world of the future”; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us. A good future...

Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences of the outdoor world; and talking leads almost inevitably to...

We have got some very big problems confronting us and let us not make any mistake about it, human history in the future is fraught with tragedy … It’s only through people making a stand...

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face. We must give standing to the new pioneers, the homecomers bent on the most important work for the next century – a massive...

Yes, this is what my senses alone have learned:—Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

Somewhere between poetry and science, somewhere between heaven and earth, clairaudience is born. Clairaudience is the sweetest mystery any human being could ever experience. Fortunately, it is the most contagious, too. Most, if not all,...

The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.

For thousands of years, it had been nature–and its supposed creator–that had had a monopoly on awe. It had been the icecaps, the deserts, the volcanoes and the glaciers that had given us a sense...

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head touching the soft tendrils of a jasmine which grew there...

If you look around you at the physical universe, you will see that it’s nature is growth. Everything from the cells in your body to the planets orbiting the sun are constantly growing, constantly changing,...

The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain: ‘This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is...

It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of life, with all the direct materiality of the child’s mind, and all the...

The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there’s little goodevidence.

If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly.” from the video “Carl Jung speaks about death

This is not wilderness for designation or for a park. Not a scenic wilderness and not one good for fishing or the viewing of wildlife. It is wilderness that gets into your nostrils, that runs...

In a segment of the Sermon on the Mount, appearing in Matthew 5, Jesus is reported to have set six new teachings of his against six old Jewish teachings. The latter are introduced by such...

The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before – but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to...

Flat outstretched upon a moundOf earth I lie; I press my earAgainst its surface and I hearFar off and deep, the measured soundOf heart that beats within the ground.And with it pounds in harmonyThe swift,...

There comes a hush between darkness and day.Like expectation of a caress.A murmur of silence. Tree crests peeked down at Paulette through slowly lifting fog. Bark felt around for its texture again. Morning gathered and...

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases. From the love of splendour, from the indulgences of...

[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science’s growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.

Nature is our spirit, breathing.

If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.

The true nature of the party has not changed. It is still dependent on bureaucrats, leaving everything up to them. In reforming the expressway public corporations, the party said it would not build new roads,...