The earth is what we all have in common.
We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.
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.
We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth.
We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
The land is dearer for the sea, The ocean for the shore.
I believe that a religious conversion is the only way to stimulate the peoples of the industrialized nations to be willing to make sacrifices for the sake of esho funi (the oneness of self and environment). ... I wish the entire world would accept as an item of religious faith the concept of esho funi and its moral obligations.
You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.
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.
When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.
The Indian feels that he is related to the animal world. That all living things are related.
There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
Where did the concept of "without borders" come from? No one had that concept until you saw Earth from space, illustrated not by a mapmaker who's color-coding political boundaries; it's illustrated by nature itself and there's land, there's ocean, there's atmosphere.
You know, people have tried to make out there is a split between environmentalism and labor over the years. And if that was ever true, it becomes less so all the time.
I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.
I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.
