Nature, red in tooth and claw.
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.
I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail.
Folks who are alive today need to wake up and do what they can to stop abusing the planet, and find ways to preserve the web of life. That's where the soul is headed. It is time for us to become wounded healers.
Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.
We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.
If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.
Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
Earth Mother, you who are called by a thousand names. May all remember we are cells in your body and dance together.
Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.
Mess with nature and it will mess right back.
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own version of knowledge, we have been unreceptive to the wisdom of the natural world. To tune in again, to have the "spontaneous environmental rapport" that characterized our ancestors, will take doing something that is perfectly delightful: reimmersing ourselves in the natural world.
Nature abhors a garden.
I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.
The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.
In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.
A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?
When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may see it with love and respect. - Perhaps such a shift of values can be achieved by reappraising things unnatural, tame, and confined in terms of things natural, wild, and free.
Nothing in nature takes more than what it needs
We must be kind and gentle gardeners with people and nature.
When I was about fifteen, I went to work at Yosemite National Park. It changed me forever. Nature had carved its own sculpture, and I was part of it, not the other way around.
You can't love nature with a gun
