Norman Maclean Quotes

I am two with nature.

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

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.

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

What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.

Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it.

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

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

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 am inspired by alchemy and all things continuous, uninterrupted, and effortlessly fused into wholes.

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

I can't be separated from nature. I am one of her faces.

Do not focus too much on the east and forget the west. And do not ignore the south, to speak for the north. What happens in the east has effects in the north, as the west has in the south. And do not focus on one species and ignore the other. Or love your father but ignore your mother, or love your sister but ignore your brother. Do not forget each other. We are all part of each other. We are all ONE.

It may be that to eat and be eaten are the same thing in the end. My wisdom tells me that this is probably so. We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the Jungle, you of the City. The same substance composes us-the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star-we are all one, all moving to the same end. Remember that when you no longer remember me, my child.

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.