It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Nature
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.
-Gretel Ehrlich
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"
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.
-Linda Hogan
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.
-Brian Morton
"Breakable You"
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
-George Bernard Shaw "George Bernard Shaw"
Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.
-Sri Chinmoy "Sri Chinmoy"
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
