Bruce Cameron Quotes

The dogs and I are a single thing, and thus we share our interests. With them, I'm bigger and better than I am without them, and vice versa.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

You are the land. The land is you.

I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere!

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator of the sentient sapient and the created we have a symbiotic relationship.

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else.

Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a welcoming home to so many birds and animals. There is a rhythm to this togetherness.

Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is commonplace in dogs, men's adrenal glands could shrink. Dogs, by making us more efficient predators, gave us time to think. In short, dogs civilized us.

Essentially, all life on the planet is coming from the earth. Whether it is a human being or an earthworm, it is the same soil.

I forget that he is another person; instead it feels like he is another part of me, just as essential as a heart or an eye or an arm.

The strong need the weak as much as the weak need the strong

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

I think coexisting with another life form is a very rich experience. It's why people keep plants and animals.

Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: "That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe. It’s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing.

Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole.

The earth was our home, she would have said, but no less was it home to the oxen that pulled our plows or the elephants that roamed in the forest and worked for us. They lived with us as partners whose well-being was inseparable from our own.

Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do for us. Blossom, trees; ripen, fields; be warm for them, suns; be fertile for them, planets: they are our adopted daughters, and they have come home.

Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it's as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.