Earthly Bond Quotes

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

Our feet are our body's connection to the earth.

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).

We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.

Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.