Sacred Landscape Quotes

There are only two or three places in Britain with Catholic and Protestant cathedrals, and Liverpool is one. My wife Montse and I like to go to both of them.

India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.

The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her.

I really believe in the way the energy can consolidate in certain geographical spots. You can find it in a lot of different places, beautiful natural spots, or if you look at Islam or Judaism or Christianity, these ideas of holy places.

For me nature itself is god.

Growing up in Ireland, there are a lot of aspects of God that hang in the air. And my music reflects that.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

For more than 1000 years our spiritual traditions and common values have been nurtured and begotten here. Today, as we restore the value of patriotism, historical memory and cultural tradition, we are seeking firmer bonds with Mount Athos.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.

God’s great wilderness is the hope of the world.

I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.

And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic mills?

I have been blessed to be born and brought up in Uttarakhand, in the midst of all that snow, plus pure and divine environment.

I loved Cambodia; watching the sun rise at Angkor Wat was really beautiful.

I think spiritual perception comes from natural and healthy relationship to the land and I've had that. I get an easy, automatic sense of myself in nature, a wholeness and I feel nowhere else. I think people should live where praying is most immediate. That's why I live in New Mexico. The physical terrain, the feeling, the environment and culture improve my life just by waking up there.

We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff.

I have great respect for the special nature of Mauna Kea and profound regard for Hawaii's culture, environment, and people.