Just as rivers flow from east and west to merge with the one sea, forgetting that they were ever separate rivers, so all beings lose their separateness when they eventually merge into pure Being.
- Upanishads "Chandogya Upanishad"
Quotations
Nature
- Upanishads "Chandogya Upanishad"
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.
-Jane Goodall
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.
-Nora Roberts
The earth laughs in flowers.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
-Arnold Bennett
I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
-Pete Hamill
Take a look at your natural river. Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don’t you see that there is no effort if you’re riding with your river?
-Frederick Carl Frieseke "Frederick. C. Frieseke"
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
-Michael Pollan
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
