Cyrano de Bergerac Quotes

But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] what we call very loosely the 'spirit of the place.' To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is made or parts, each of which in a whole. You start with the part you are whole in.

Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.

The seed of everything is in everything else.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

Everything is together—spiritual and political.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

I try not to think of my life in terms of separation.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

There are myriads of forms and hundreds of grasses throughout the entire earth, yet each grass and each form itself is the entire earth.

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole wilderness is unity and interrelation, is alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly.

Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?

Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans.

Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together - they compose the world.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

One's not half two. It's two are halves of one.

A man is related to all nature.

Life is one indivisible whole.

This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow-mountaineers. Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go.

He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.