The air, soil and water cumulatively degrade; the climates and oceans destabilize; species become extinct at a spasm rate across continents; pollution cycles and volumes increase to endanger life-systems at all levels in cascade effects;...

With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?

Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save...

Unfortunately the picture is still hazy and not very clear as to the scope of the program and the nature of the program.

Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is — or should be — the basis of...

You can’t walk lonely in nature because nature is full of friends!

Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

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.

Animals and nature are known to open our hearts, calm us, and reduce blood pressure and stress.

We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan...

As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in...

There is no better designer than nature.

The abiding western dominology can with religion sanction identify anything dark, profound, or fluid with a revolting chaos, an evil to be mastered, a nothing to be ignored. ‘God had made us master organizers of...

There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the movements of the stars, yet...

For a century, environmentalism has divided itself into warring camps: conservationists versus preservationists…. The struggle pits those who would meddle with nature against those who would leave it be…. The only sensible way forward lies...

Music is the language of love, nature, and eternity.

If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water,...