Natural Living Quotes

I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.

Everything that we do I pretty much want to be organic, so if that happens, then that's okay with me. But I'm not interested in trying to re-create what once was. That doesn't interest me; it's boring.

I have what some people consider to be a 'hippie' mentality.

My plan was to release a tape, move to Arkansas, live on a farm, and make music like Bon Iver.

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

If the artificial is not better than the natural, to what end are all the arts of life? To dig, to plow, to build, to wear clothes, are direct infringements of the injunction to follow nature.

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God so wills it; No matter how barren the past may have been, 'T is enough for us now that the leaves are green; We sit in the warm shade and feel right well How the sap creeps up and the blossoms swell... The breeze comes whispering in our ear, That dandelions are blossoming near... Every thing is upward striving; 'T is as easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue, - 'T is the natural way of living.

My parents are hippies, so I must have a bit of hippie in me.

I might be a pretty earthy, crunchy girl, yes. There might be some crystals and Buddhas in my house. I may meditate and eat all green and compost... Yoga is a very regular part of my life.

There's nothing wrong with being a hippie.

When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.

No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.

I say stick with Mother Nature as much as possible.

It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff.

My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.

When I look back at it now, my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes.