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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse. Winter is of a more heroic cast, and addresses the intellect. The severe studies and disciplines come easier in winter. One imposes larger tasks upon himself, and is less tolerant of his own weaknesses...The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and austere, is not lost either upon the head or the heart. It is the philosopher coming back from the banquet and the wine to a cup of water and a crust of bread.
— John Burroughs
Take a break to listen to the song of the wind, talk to the whispering trees, feel the love of flowers, dance with the dancing leaves, and enjoy the tranquility and serenity of nature.
— Debasish Mridha
For life, nature is our best teacher.
— Debasish Mridha
Sometimes nature is even crueller than politics.
— Clive Barker, Tonight, Again
Pregnancy is a natural event, but you lessen the chances conception can occur with an unnatural diet.
— Nancy S. Mure, EAT! Empower, Adjust, Triumph!: Lose Ridiculous Weight, Succeed On Any Diet Plan, Bust Through Any Plateau in 3 Empowering Steps!
It's a lie to sell a diet plan that includes fast and processed foods, then implement a points system. A big. fat. lie.
— Nancy S. Mure, EAT! Empower, Adjust, Triumph!: Lose Ridiculous Weight, Succeed On Any Diet Plan, Bust Through Any Plateau in 3 Empowering Steps!
To the people of EarthI see mercy in my lovers eyesI feel Heaven in her armsAnd i have found God dwells in her soul When i watch the full MoonThe moon mimics and whisper her name
— saqib abraham
Are you going to hand your children over to Big Food, Big Med and Big Pharma? That journey begins with the choice to bottle feed, then it's all down hill from there.
— Nancy S. Mure, EAT! Empower, Adjust, Triumph!: Lose Ridiculous Weight, Succeed On Any Diet Plan, Bust Through Any Plateau in 3 Empowering Steps!
Nothing like the pure, unpolluted air we get to breathe in these mountains, and nothing like being away from cities.
— Preeti Shenoy, It Happens for a Reason
I believe the key to solving everything from individual problems to the global environmental crisis or political and religious conflicts is to be found in restoring this link with the great life force. By recovering our natural healing ability and the goodness of human nature, we can create a truly peaceful, sustainable world. And I don’t believe that these are things that social institutions or prestigious experts can do for us: they must happen within each and every one of us.
— Ilchi Lee, The Solar Body: The Secret to Natural Healing
What we should understand here is that it’s not food or breathing that life ultimately needs, but energy. And the most direct expression of energy is heat. In this sense, temperature expresses the essence of life. When you feel the heat in your body, you’re observing the most central operations of your life. You’re connected to the essence of life.
— Ilchi Lee, The Solar Body: The Secret to Natural Healing
As the gift of the Creator, natural healing power is ours. That’s why no special method is needed for recovering it. There are no perfect methods, no matter how effective or powerful they may be. What is perfect is our sense of life itself.
— Ilchi Lee, The Solar Body: The Secret to Natural Healing
Some people walk with oceans in their hearts
—  some just with jars of water. Drink from both.
You will be able to live as your authentic self when you find that infinite source of energy and that mind, bright and shining like the sun. Then you won’t need to become anyone other than yourself. You won’t need to depend on externals for your health and happiness, and you won’t need to look outside yourself to find passion and hope for life.
— Ilchi Lee, The Solar Body: The Secret to Natural Healing
Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?
— Dada Bhagwan
Many of the activities we pursue, the resources we consume, and the waste products we create are the products of our desire to make our bodies a little more comfortable and carefree. Whether it’s food, exercise, music, alcohol, sex, drugs—whatever the stimulus—ultimately what we seek is a feeling of satisfaction. In the end, though, true satisfaction arises from a balance of healthy, harmonious energy. And that harmonious, balanced energy is the core of the natural healing power.
— Ilchi Lee, The Solar Body: The Secret to Natural Healing
Nature has always been and always will be, as far as my tiny brain can understand, miraculous. Except, nature won't last because the world won't.
— Patrick Downes
Religion (Dharma) begins with an obliging nature.
— Dada Bhagwan
As long as I can find hope in myself, there is hope for the future of the earth and the human race. If I fail to discover hope in myself, there is no hope for the earth or the human race. If I discover the goodness of human nature in myself, I can find it in the entire human race. If I fail to discover it in myself, I can’t expect it from anyone else, either.
— Ilchi Lee, The Solar Body: The Secret to Natural Healing
Creativity is nature. Nature is creativity.
— A.D. Posey
The natural cure for sterility is a natural diet along with a home toxin detox.
— Nancy S. Mure, EAT! Empower, Adjust, Triumph!: Lose Ridiculous Weight, Succeed On Any Diet Plan, Bust Through Any Plateau in 3 Empowering Steps!
Not knowing the name of the tree,I stood in the floodof its sweet scent.
— Bashō Matsuo
Witches escape to the forest to listen to the whispers of nature itself...
— Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft
There is divinity in the clouds.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
This choreography of ruin, the world breakinglike glass under a microscope,the way it doesn’t crack all at once,but spreads out from the damaged cavities.Still for a moment it all recedes.The backyard potatoes swell quietlyburied beneath their canopy of leaves.The wind rubs its hands through the trees.
— Ellen Bass, Like a Beggar
We are one at the root - we just part at the branch
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Ripe summer's sweetness drippedin pearls from every treeand into my opened hearta little drop ran down.
— Edith Södergran, Poems 1916
The sun rises, the sun falls, the wind blows and the birds sing no matter where you are. These are experiences that unite us all... something we can all enjoy together
— Melanie Charlene
The planet, saved for another day, stokes upits slow-burning gases and toxic dust, gold rift and scarletgash that take our breath away; a world at its interminableshow of holy dying. And we go with it, the oldgatherer and hunter. To its gaudy-day, though the contributionis small, adding our handsel of warm clay.
— David Malouf, Earth Hour
We are nature; we are nature as we munch gum and check the phone; we are nature as we queasily regret our imperfection, turning the glossy page, turning our glossy stomachs; we are nature as we hear them witter inanely on the radio, desecrating the silence with the violence of their idiocy and dumb verdicts, chattering and grooming, picking through the ticks in their hair, marveling at new minutia.
— Russell Brand
Nature always accepts changes and never misses the opportunity to bloom.
— Debasish Mridha
You are on your back at the foot of an aspen. In its trembling shade. She at right angles propped on her elbows head between her hands. Your eyes opened and closed have looked in hers looking in yours. In your dark you look in them again. Still. You feel on your face the fringe of her long black hair stirring in the still air. Within the tent of hair your faces are hidden from view. She murmurs, Listen to the leaves. Eyes in each other's eyes you listen to the leaves. In their trembling shade.
— Samuel Beckett, Company
An important part of being an alpha is to be hateful and calculating, but to appear just inconsiderate. You need to put in effort to get what you want, but people will push back if they think you’re doing something maliciously. If they believe you just don’t know any better, are just kind of a selfish dick and they got in the way of that, rather than thinking they were a target, then you can get away with a lot more, and from then on they either avoid you or accept you as a force of nature.
— A.D. Aliwat, Alpha
You cannot control anything except your thoughts. With yoga, you do not control yourself but you harmonize with nature.
— Debasish Mridha
Every eye makes its own perception.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Reconnect with nature and be restored.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I told her how many things on earth have a fixed colour. Let us say, the green leaves. In our eyes, a red or a yellow leaf is beautiful. Even better if the leaf is shaded in several hues. So we paint the yellows and reds in our paintings oftener. And we forget the ordinary green, the best in nature.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word
Oh! The morning sun, I am grateful for your light and warmth. Oh! The pristine nature, I am grateful for your beauty and life sustaining air. Oh! The river and oceans, I am grateful for your generosity and water for thirst. Oh! The vast sky, I am grateful for your vastness and deepness of love.
— Debasish Mridha
A walk in nature is connection with the Creator.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Be like nature—quiet, calm, loving, and persistent. Don’t hurry. Flowers will bloom.
— Debasish Mridha
I did not want to think about people. I wanted the trees, the scents and colors, the shifting shadows of the wood, which spoke a language I understood. I wished I could simply disappear in it, live like a bird or a fox through the winter, and leave the things I had glimpsed to resolve themselves without me.
— Patricia A. McKillip, Winter Rose
To see the first sun rise in New Year is the most sacredness of existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their veins, she gives of her strength, sustaining them with her own measureless tremor of dark life. Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. For the gifts of life are the earth’s and they are given to all, and they are the songs of birds at daybreak, Orion and the Bear, and dawn seen over ocean from the beach.
— Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
I did not want to think about people. I wanted the trees, the scents and colors, the shifting shadows of the wood, which spoke language I understood. I wished I could simply disappear in it, live like a bird or a fox through the winter, and leave the things I had glimpsed to resolve themselves without me.
— Patricia A. McKillip, Winter Rose
The father and daughter made their way north, through unknown sylvan paradises where only the owls and skunks know their way around. The hard work of paddling non-stop for many hours had long since stopped being difficult for Saweyimew. In spite of her beauty and grace, her back had grown strong and sinewy from years of canoe trips. She reveled in the exhilaration it always brought her, after the first few hours left her body insensible to pain or discomfort. Warm and tingly, lulled into peaceful contemplation by hours of the rhythmic paddling, the smell of the water, exotic blooms, animal musk. It all combined as one to make her feel so alive. Especially when it rained, and her body steamed against the cool drops, feeling invincible against the elements. The mountain of her father's back was like a rock against anything nature could throw against them. The stream of fragrant pipe-smoke still flowing from his lips, regardless of any obstacle. She felt at that moment, nothing would ever stop her father's pipe from smoking. Nothing, not death, not any force of the living or spirit world, would ever still her father's heart. Rain cleansing her to the core, she was a spring of raw power and self-reliance, paddling against all adversity--their master completely. Her father's daughter. At times like that, when it rained, she entirely understood and shared her father's outlook on life.
— Alexei Maxim Russell, Forgotten Lore: Volume II
Richard looked up at the beautiful, big pines spreading over them, illuminated in the firelight. A spark of understanding lit in his mind. He saw the branches stretched out with murderous intent in a years-long struggle to reach the sunlight and dispatch its neighbors with its shade. Success would give space for its offspring, many of which would also shrivel in the shade of the parent. Several close neighbors of the big pine were withered and weak, victims all. It was true. The design of nature was success by murder.
— Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule
May you find the beauty in every moment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
[W]hile our souls are meager, nature has surplus. Yet something of the mechanism's subject was indeed dissolved in that silver chloride, flattened then minted as those promiscuous postcards we saw now, which we could not now unsee, for we had accepted unawares a bit of the Canyon each time we saw a photograph of it, and those pieces, filtered and diluted, had accumulated in us, so that we never saw anything for the first time. Perhaps the ugliest of our impulses, to shove the sublime through a pinhole.
— Claire Vaye Watkins, Gold Fame Citrus
When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.
— Alanis Obomsawin
Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination
— Janine Benyus
Seek the miracles in a sacred moment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I don't have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I'm out in nature. It's just something that's bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it's enough for me.
— Jane Goodall
Plant a tree in your lifetime.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
My life is a work of art and nature is my temple!
— Maurice Spees
I am learning to flow with rhythm of nature.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
O, to take what we love inside,to carry within us an orchard, to eatnot only the skin, but the shade,not only the sugar, but the days, to holdthe fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite intothe round jubilance of peach. There are days we liveas if death were nowherein the background; from joyto joy to joy, from wing to wing,from blossom to blossom toimpossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.
— Li-Young Lee, Rose
Water purling between the rocks, weed under the surface like green hair in the wind.
— Mark Haddon, The Red House
The moment in time is unrepeatable.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The star rises from the east. Watch out!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Every living creature breathes.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
But now at last the sacred influenceOf light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'nShoots far into the bosom of dim NightA glimmering dawn; here Nature first begins her farthest verge, and Chaos to retireAs from her outmost works a broken foeWith tumult less and with less hostile din,
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
Every flower blossoms in its sacred time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Everyday nature is drawing a new picture just to keep herself alive and pretty.
— Debasish Mridha
Lion, lion golden spunin savannahs of the sun,What immortal eye, or handweaves beasts from dreams,sews sky to land?
— Christyl Rivers
From the old wood came an ancient melancholy, somehow soothing to her, better than the harsh insentience of the outer world. She liked the inwardness of the remnant of forest, the unspeaking reticence of the old trees. They seemed a very power of silence, and yet a vital presence. They, too, were waiting: obstinately, stoically waiting, and giving off a potency of silence.
— D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
Work on making yourself a complete being. Though you were born with the physical traits of one sex, you possess the characteristics of both - including those of plants and animals. You were created as a nearly complete universal being, but with flaws. True perfection can only be achieved when one recognizes that they need to combine their oneness with others and nature. Only then is one considered complete.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans.
— Munia Khan
Children have deep devotion to life and this devotion is beautifully expressed through the free play. Objects of play should be as simple as possible, to allow the power of imagination to flourish. Buying ‘perfect’, expensive toys, rob the children of an ability to see beauty in a stone or a shell.
— Nataša Nuit Pantović, Conscious Parenting: Mindful Living Course for Parents
We can learn so much from nature by simply observing how it works through a flower. The flower knows it is part of nature' we have forgotten that.
— Thomas Sterner
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
— Walter Savage Landor
From the olive-strewn forum, one could see the village down below. Not a sound came from it; wisps of smoke rose in the limpid air. The sea also lay silent, as if breathless beneath the unending shower of cold, glittering light. From the Chenoua, a distant cock crow alone sang the fragile glory of the day. Across the ruins, as far as one could see, there were nothing but pitted stones and absinthe plants, trees and perfect columns in the transparence of the crystal air. It was as if the morning stood still, as if the sun had stopped for an immeasurable moment. In this light and silence, years of night and fury melted slowly away. I listened to an almost forgotten sound within myself, as if my heart had long been stopped and was now gently beginning to beat again.
— Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays
The love for God is the love to protect the environment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The ocean fascinates me too. How it connects everything and everyone, but at the same time it divides us. It’s a mystery, full of life and possibilities. It’s just…phenomenal.
— Danielle Esplin, Give It Back
Thievery is for the civilized. It is what laws protect us from. I am a wild beast of no laws and no society. I want no laws. I want no more civilized things.
— J.M. McDermott, Straggletaggle
Nature is a better scientist than any human can ever be.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
Does not heed to the darkWith its shimmering light,Moon quietly bathes the ocean
— Somali K Chakrabarti
A societal revolution is politically organic in nature. It can't be engineered. It has to be evolved.
— Mamur Mustapha
When I see a garden in flower, then I believe in God for a second. But not the rest of the time
— Svetlana Alexievich
Ugly or beautiful, it is the little creatures that make the world go round. We should celebrate and appreciated them in all their wonderful diversity.
— Dave Goulson
That was the nature of the waters. You never knew what lurked below.
— Brandon Sanderson, Sixth of the Dusk
Nature always waits in the wings and the winds, ready to pounce with all of its power just at that sloppily contented hour when you foolishly assume it to be plainly tired out. Narcissistic humans do their quite pathetic best to kill nature off, oblivious to their self-reliance on its upkeep, yet nature will only take so much bureaucratic bullying before it snaps a deadly snap - for it does not need your approval, your organised banditry, your prepubescent social laws, your trades of cheapening commerce, your militant preachment, your apologies or blind belief of superiority... as if a presidential seat gives you an intolerable presumption of dominance over this earth's terrain!
— Morrissey
A person’s true nature, true self, cannot change with situations.It is totally consistent.
— Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
How much I'd always envied the tight life of voles. The hidey hole was happiness.
— Sam Lipsyte, The Subject Steve
Nature is such as to give rise to conscious beings with minds
—  and it is such as to be comprehensible to such beings. Ultimately therefore such beings should be comprehensible to themselves.
Divinity encompasses all life forms.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
MUSIC OF THE UNIVERSEWithout the orchestra of the universe,There would be no ether. And without its instrumentationBy the ether, There would be no waves. And without any waves, There would be no sound. And without sound, There would be no music. And without music, There would be no life. And without a life force, There would be no matter. But it does not matter - Because what is matter, If there is no light?
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
This world is your world but that doesn't mean you can always stop it from burning.
— Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water.And I feel above me the day-blind starswaiting with their light. For a timeI rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
— Wendell Berry, The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
I always know what to expect of the things of Mother Earth. Sometimes they are cruel, but it is hard, clean cruelty. They don’t torture you with their own weakness.
— Anna Lee Waldo, Sacajawea
Only when you go beyond Mind, will you be able to respect the energy that inhabits us; until then you will either exploit others with your energy or will deplete your energy, leading a purposeless life!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Love is always fresh as morning dew.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I barely took a moment to appreciate nature. Come to think of it, theonly time I did it was when I was so upset I wanted to commit suicide in theHuang Pu river.
— Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody
I am thinking that people find truth and collect experiences in vain, for they cannot change their fundamental natures. And perhaps the only thing in life one can do is to take the givens of one’s fundamental nature and tailor them to reality as cleverly and carefully as one can. That is the most we can accomplish.
— Sándor Márai, Embers
God is constantly Creating, Experiencing, Witnessing, De-constructing, and Expanding. God is everything and everyone – that’s the realm where we don’t exist at all. That’s the realm where there’s none, but One
— Manprit Kaur
Lou stood at the kitchen sink, her eyes unfocused on her hazy reflection in the window. Outside the sky was fading from steely blue to indigo. The mountain range beyond was a solid sheet of black, cut out by a child's sloppy scissors.
— Danika Stone, Edge of Wild
It is not only the size of these redwoods but their strangeness that frightens them. And why not? For these are the last remaining members of a race that flourished over four continents as far back in geologic time as the upper Jurassic period. Fossils of these ancients have been found dating from the Cretaceous era while in the Eocene and Miocene they were spread over England and Europe and America. And then the glaciers moved down and wiped the Titans out beyond recovery. And only these few are left--a stunning memory of what the world was like once long ago. Can it be that we do not love to be reminded that we are very young and callow in a world that was old when we came into it? And could there be a strong resistance to the certainty that a living world will continue its stately way when we no longer inhabit it?
— John Steinbeck
Nature displays beauty in its pure state.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Nature will always be nature.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but one, no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides me; other things change, but it remains the same. For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of it surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garland crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the woodland solitudes, I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago. -MARK TWAIN in an 1889 Dinner Speech at Delmonico's in New York to honor two baseball teams that had just returned from touring the Pacific, including Honolulu.
— John Richard Stephens, Hawai'i Bathroom Book, The
Back in those days there was still an unbroken stretch of heath that lay on the route of our excursions, all that was left of a heath that once had extended almost up to the town on the one side and almost to the little village on the other. Here the honeybees and white-gray bumblebees hummed over the fragrant blossoms of heather, and the beautiful gold-green beetles ran among the plants; here in the sweet clouds of the erica and the resinous bushes hovered butterflies that could be found nowhere else on this earth.
— Theodor Storm, Aquis Submersus
With heavy rainfall, the river will overflow its banks.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May you love blossom like a lily.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
It had always been a breathtaking view, the kind that made him inhale and forget to exhale . . .
— Seré Prince Halverson, All the Winters After
Consciousness of the world itself is nature. And when you destroy nature you block off consciousness from the world.
— Matthew Donnelly
For a long time, they sat without speaking. The air outside was filled with the lilting sound of sparrows, the buzz of traffic on Main Street, and under that the faint lapping of waves on the lakeshore. Lou smiled. It wasn't the same, but it was better.And better, Lou thought, is a start.
— Danika Stone, Edge of Wild
In his stupor, the forest had begun to change. The sounds were confusing, his eyes blurring in his exhaustion. He tugged another branch out of the way, gasping as a jagged twig poked through the palm of his hand, momentarily catching there. The pain was almost an afterthought, his fingers no longer working effectively.
— Danika Stone, Edge of Wild
Love is like morning dew. It is always beautiful and fresh.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Naked you are blue like the night in Cuba,you have vines and stars in your hair,
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
The one red leaf, the last of its clan,That dances as often as dance it can,Hanging so light, and hanging so high,On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
Rain is nature’s art; umbrella is man’s art. When you walk with your umbrella in a rainy day, you walk with a super art which is a combination of two different arts!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.
— Charles Darwin
Success and failure will all come to pass like waves, only Nature remains
— Sung Yee Poon, MILLENNIUM CHARM Three Novellas. Conflicts.Dislocation. Loss
I don't know much about gods, but I think the river is a strong, brown god
— T.S. Eliot
Forgetting nature is like forgetting your mother. Remember you are a child of nature. You are connected to it and belong to it. So don’t forget to protect her.
— Debasish Mridha
All seasons are spectacular.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Why is it that people who are absorbed by something are seen as sad? I can't explain it, but for me it reverses the true state of affairs. To be engaged is to be a part, to be absorbed and fulfilled. To be cool, to be detached from things and to have no passionate feelings is the real sadness. At the heart of depression, that quintessentially modern malaise, is a deep sense of separation from the rest of life.
— Mark Cocker, Crow Country
When we reconnect with nature, we will be restore ourselves.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Earth, water, fire, and wind. Where there is energy there is life.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Ere long this golden light shall pass and fadeExcept all cherish'd mem'ries ye have made.
— Timothy Salter, The Sonnets
Nature hath no goal, though she hath law.
— John Donne
Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
-a superb moon, round as a pumpkin and golden as honey, filling the rooftop world with light, and deep, mysterious shadow.
— Barbara Sleigh
And so, despite the complex web of paths, waterfalls, cliffs, as a hiker wanders downhill, drainages merge, faint, abstract paths coalesce, thicken, until there is one path – the one, natural, trodden way.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
In spite of our proud domination of nature, we are still her victims, for we have not even learned to control our nature.
— C.G. Jung
The love of nature is the love for the Creator.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Miss Parkinson lived alone in a big bay-windowed house of Edwardian brick with a vast garden of decaying fruit trees and untidy hedges of gigantic size. She was great at making elderberry wine and bottling fruit and preserves and lemon curd and drying flowers for winter. She felt, like Halibut, that things were not as they used to be. The synthetic curse of modern times lay thick on everything. There was everywhere a sad drift from Nature.
— H.E. Bates
Water was liquid silver, water was gold. It was clarity—a sacred thing. Drinking was no longer something to take for granted. I’d never needed to consider water before.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
When you connect with nature, you will create yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Our Nature is so Beautiful that we come eyes to short if we be on the right place.Jan Jansen
— Jan Jansen
Creativity begins with a walk with nature.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
It is absolutely certain that we must act to protect nature much more efficiently than ever before. Tomorrow – when mankind will step forward to a totally uncertain future – will be too late.
— Eraldo Banovac
Nature is well-spring of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The love for nature is the well-spring of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I never knew the wonders of nature, until I began to walk with nature.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A child in London asked her father what autumn was, having heard it spoken of these days, and the father in explanation said it was a season, though not a major one. In cities, this father said, you did not feel autumn so much, not as you felt the heat of summer or the bite of winter air, or even the slush of spring. He said that, and then the next day sent for the child and said he had been talking nonsense. 'Autumn is on now,' he said. 'You can see it in the parks,' and he took his child for a nature walk.
— William Trevor, The Love Department
I was passive by nature. I had always been. Arguing felt unnatural and uncomfortable. I was always agreeing even when I didn’t really, instinctively looking for ways to forfeit power, to become more dependent, to be taken care of. I realized how intensely Icecap reminded me of Jacob. They were similar, both diligent and harsh in their judgments—and my big brother’s sureness had always comforted me.But as I ran on sore legs to keep up with Icecap, my tendency toward silence stressed me.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
That it’s rough out there and chancy is no surprise. Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac. But at the same time we are also created. In the Koran, Allah asks “the heaven and the earth, and all in between, thinkest thou I made them in jest?” It’s a good question. What do we think of the created universe, spanning an unthinkable void with an unthinkable profusion of forms? Or what do we think of nothingness, those sickening reaches of time in either direction? If the giant water bug was not made in jest, was it then made in earnest?
— Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
This was trail magic. Sea Breeze’s fire, his light, his heat, his life, remained, their salvation. It is a fact that all drainages, if followed downhill, lead to the same lowland water body. Lost and fallen hikers follow drainages down because walking ridges is harder. And so, despite the complex web of paths, waterfalls, cliffs, as a hiker wanders downhill, drainages merge, faint, abstract paths coalesce, thicken, until there is one path – the one, natural, trodden way. It isn’t a coincidence that Sea Breeze, Brandon Day and Gina Allen, and countless other hikers all wandered, lost, down the same steep slope to nowhere.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
She tilted her head back, breathing deeply. It was a stone gray day, the sea a bleak slate broken up by whitecaps, the sky pleated with thick ripples of cloud. A hard wind filled the sails, carrying the little boat over the waves. 'It feels good to be this kind of cold,' she murmured. 'This kind?''Wind in your hair, sea spray on your skin. The cold of the living.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.
— John Steinbeck, The Pearl
I sat wondering: Why is there always this deep shade of melancholy over the fields arid river banks, the sky and the sunshine of our country? And I came to the conclusion that it is because with us Nature is obviously the more important thing. The sky is free, the fields limitless; and the sun merges them into one blazing whole. In the midst of this, man seems so trivial. He comes and goes, like the ferry-boat, from this shore to the other; the babbling hum of his talk, the fitful echo of his song, is heard; the slight movement of his pursuit of his own petty desires is seen in the world's market-places: but how feeble, how temporary, how tragically meaningless it all seems amidst the immense aloofness of the Universe! The contrast between the beautiful, broad, unalloyed peace of Nature—calm, passive, silent, unfathomable,—and our own everyday worries—paltry, sorrow-laden, strife-tormented, puts me beside myself as I keep staring at the hazy, distant, blue line of trees which fringe the fields across the river. Where Nature is ever hidden, and cowers under mist and cloud, snow and darkness, there man feels himself master; he regards his desires, his works, as permanent; he wants to perpetuate them, he looks towards posterity, he raises monuments, he writes biographies; he even goes the length of erecting tombstones over the dead. So busy is he that he has not time to consider how many monuments crumble, how often names are forgotten!
— Rabindranath Tagore
First, the wind would rumble in the distance like an approaching river, then he would see grass bend, pressed by a great invisible hand. The dull rumble would rise in pitch to a swishing, lashing exultation, causing stalks to lie flat against the ground while the tougher branches of shrubs held themselves up and shrieked their defiance in the gusts. Then the first drops, cold and heavy, would plummet from the sky and burst on the ground.
— Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder
I hear the Wind Woman running with soft, soft footsteps over the hill. I shall always think of the wind as a personality. She is a shrew when she blows from the north -- a lonely seeker when she blows from the east -- a laughing girl when she comes from the west -- and tonight from the south a little grey fairy.
— L.M. Montgomery
An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth.
— Sanober  Khan
Nature, too, supports our personal blossoming (if we have any quiet exposure to her) through her spontaneities, through her beauty, power, and mirroring, through her dazzling variety of species and habitats, and by way of the wind, Moon, Sun, stars, and galaxies.
— Bill Plotkin, Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
I believed in a return to Nature once. But how can we return to Nature when we have never been with her? Today, I believe that we must discover Nature. After many conquests we shall attain simplicity. It is our heritage.
— E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
A sprawling North London parkland, composed of oaks, willows and chestnuts, yews and sycamores, the beech and the birch; that encompasses the city’s highest point and spreads far beyond it; that is so well planted it feels unplanned; that is not the country but is no more a garden than Yellowstone; that has a shade of green for every possible felicitation of light; that paints itself in russets and ambers in autumn, canary-yellow in the splashy spring; with tickling bush grass to hide teenage lovers and joint smokers, broad oaks for brave men to kiss against, mown meadows for summer ball games, hills for kites, ponds for hippies, an icy lido for old men with strong constitutions, mean llamas for mean children and, for the tourists, a country house, its façade painted white enough for any Hollywood close-up, complete with a tea room, although anything you buy there should be eaten outside with the grass beneath your toes, sitting under the magnolia tree, letting the white blossoms, blush-pink at their tips, fall all around you. Hampstead Heath! Glory of London! Where Keats walked and Jarman fucked, where Orwell exercised his weakened lungs and Constable never failed to find something holy.
— Zadie Smith
I don't have any big adventures.""But of course you have big adventures," Papa said. You have adventures of all sorts, all the time.""Not like Radish in the Book of Tales," Geraldine said, scuffing a toe along the ground. "I could never be like Radish.""No, you don't have adventures exactly like Radish," Papa said. "But that's because you're not Radish and you must have your own adventures. All creatures must.""Happy ones?" Geraldine asked."In the end, yes. But they won't all seem that way at first. They'll have unexpected twists and turns. You must let them play out to the end, like a story in the Book of Tales. Follow God, speak to him and listen to him, and all tales will be beautiful in their time.
— Karin Kaufman, The Adventures of Geraldine Woolkins
The thorns thinned out and the trees grew taller and straighter, their branches not beginning until a few feet over our heads. The white, peeled bark of the birches looked buttery in the long, slanting afternoon light, and their leaves were a delicate gold.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
The fullness of life is wrapped in all sacred times: plenty and scarcity
—  happiness and sadness
By the power of God, everything came into existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Given that the human soul is the very core of our human nature, we might note that, when we are guided by soul, we are guided by nature. Both soul and greater nature do guide us in our individual development, whether or not we ask for this guidance.
— Bill Plotkin, Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and air and weather were.
— William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses
The horse is by Nature a very lazy animal whose idea of heaven is an enormous field of lush grass in which he can graze undisturbed until his belly is full, and after a pleasant doze can start filling himself up all over again.
— Elwyn Hartley Edwards
It is only a barbarous mind that sees other than the flower, merely an animal mind that dreams of other than the moon.
— Bashō Matsuo, The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
Artifacts are alive. Each has a voice. They remind us what it means to be human - that it is our nature to survive, to create works of beauty to be resourceful, to be attentive to the world we live in.
— Terry Tempest Williams
In the marshes the buckbean has lifted its feathery mist of flower spikes above the bed of trefoil leaves. The fimbriated flowers are a miracle of workmanship and every blossom exhibits an exquisite disorder of ragged petals finer than lace. But one needs a lens to judge of their beauty: it lies hidden from the power of our eyes, and menyanthes must have bloomed and passed a million times before there came any to perceive and salute her loveliness. The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
— Eden Phillpotts
Time is a precious gift.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
.....The biggest mystery of nature is nature.
— Farooq A. Shiekh
Women understand the workings of nature than men. They trust in their instincts while men consider this behavior weakness.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Your purpose, and its specific expressions, expands and accelerates as it becomes more similar to Nature’s purpose. The tools you need to apply it you collect along the path in discovering what that is. Time is there to provide you with the “opportunities” to find more creative responses to things like frustration, confusion and self-righteousness. As you gently, oh so gently and delicately, adjust to the requirements that exist in your actual circumstance, you are given the tools needed to surpass them.
— Darrell Calkins, Re:
God's creation is absolute amazing.He is the great God of wonders.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
All the tough lessons in life are meant for negative ending to positive beginning. Like fall to spring. During such time nature warn us to alter everything in our life including mind. Such transformation are vital and essential. If we don't alter nature create force of destruction.
— Aditya Ajmera
Tis open before your eyes," returned the scout; "and he who knows it is not a niggard of its use. I have heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may deform his works in the settlement, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests. If any such there be, and he will follow me from sun to sun, through the windings of the forest, he shall see enough to teach him that he is a fool, and the greatest of his folly lies in striving to rise to the level of One he can never equal, be it in goodness, or be it in power.
— James Fenimore Cooper
We can stage our own act on the planet-build our cities on its plains, dam its rivers, plant its topsoils-but our meaningful activity scarcely covers the terrain. We do not use the songbirds, for instance. We do not eat many of them; we cannot befriend them; we cannot persuade them to eat more mosquitoes or plant fewer weed seeds. We can only witness them-whoever they are. If we were not here, they would be songbirds falling in the forest. If we were not here, material events like the passage of seasons would lack even the meager meanings we are able to muster for them. The show would play to an empty house, as do all those falling stars which fall in the daytime. That is why I take walks: to keep an eye on things.
— Annie Dillard
Every traveler should make their own observation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
— John Lennon
Peace cannot be kept by force
—  it can only be achieved by understanding.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.
— Milan Kundera
The world is quiet here.
— Lemony Snicket
Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.
— Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.
— Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
— Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
— Albert Schweitzer
The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.
— C. JoyBell C.
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
— Eckhart Tolle
World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.
— Dalai Lama XIV
By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
— Marianne Williamson
There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
— Albert Camus
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
— Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
Do you know what it is like,to lie in bed awake;with thoughts to hauntyou every night,of all your past mistakes.Knowing sleep will set it right - if you were not to wake.
— Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
— Anton Chekhov
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for dive
— John F. Kennedy
Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
— Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada
It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
— Francis of Assisi
If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it.
— Hiro Mashima
Rest and be thankful.
— William Wordsworth
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.
— Robert A. Heinlein
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
— George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House
My Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. I hesitate to go out. If you opened the little gate, I would not hop away—but oh how I sing in my gold cage.
— A.S. Byatt, Possession
She stared at the stars like they were pillow for her mind and in their light she could rest her heavy head.
— Christopher Poindexter
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
— Dalai Lama XIV