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Most people are on the world, not in it.
Sep 10, 2025
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
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.
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate.
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods.
The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere
In the woods we return to reason and faith.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.
The mountains are calling and I must go.
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we’ll ever have …the earth and nature.
The earth has music for those who listen.
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.