Anohni Quotes

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

It is funny how we talk about nature as this separate entity when we are nature, and nature is us.

I am two with nature.

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.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

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.

Here, fire turns into water; Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun. There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction; Everything supports everything else.

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.

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.

I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.

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.

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.

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

Life seeks life and loves life. The opening of a catkin of a willow, in the flight of the butterfly, in the chirping of a tree-toad or the sweep of an eagle - my life loves to see how others live, exults in their joy, and so far is partner in their great concern.

There isn't a line that you can draw between the air and your body. We are the environment.

I don't believe in the separation between mankind and nature. Mankind is nature.

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.

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.

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

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

The sage is one with the world, and lives in harmony with it.

Souls and bodies should go on together.

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.

I’ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel has been a kind of search for that, a pursuit for unity and even an attempt to contribute to a sense of unity.