Natural Guidance Quotes

The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.

Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul.

My main language was music, and my teacher was nature.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

Listening to nature's operating instructions.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.

We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen.

I follow my nose. It’s as simple as that.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.

I honor the wisdom of life. I learn from life in all its forms. The tree teaches me. The sparrow and the wren sing my song. I am open to the lessons Life brings me from the earth. I learn from the wind, from the sun, from the small flowers, and from the stars. I walk without arrogance. I learn from all I encounter. I open my mind and heart to the guidance and love that come to me from the natural world.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

There's natural mentoring that goes on in my life every day.

He lived according to the laws of instinct and of the innocent and wise conduct that nature impressed upon him in the cradle.

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.