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If you are missing out on the natural joy and wisdom of life, it is because you have been taught to ignore it....Reconnecting with nature consists of bringing into your consciousness a sensory way of thinking and relating with which you are born
Sep 10, 2025
It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
As each tree falls so does the earth's ability to heal itself and to adapt to the effects of our changing climate
Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth
Lose yourself in nature and find peace
Humankind has no option but to protect and live in harmony with its natural environment. However, it would be regrettable if in putting an end to revolutionary extremism, we should then come to environmental extremism. We should not forget that all extremes are the same.
Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.
I therefore suggested that WWF should invite leaders from the major religions to meet together to discuss what - if any - responsibility they felt they had for the natural environment as a "sacred" entity.
One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.
The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind.
If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature
Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price
The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole of our planet are absolutely vital if future generations are to have a chance to enjoy their existence on this earth.
We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.
Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
The environment is not as 'cheap as chips', it's priceless and we all have a part to play in protecting it
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force.
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
Doing work which has to be done over and over again helps us recognize the natural cycles of growth and decay, of birth and death, and thus become aware of the dynamic order of the universe. "Ordinary" work, as the root meaning of the term indicates, is work that is in harmony with the order we perceive in the natural environment.
Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.
Water is the driving force of all nature.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."
From dawn to dusk, winter to spring, summer & autumn; the contrasts of nature refresh the mind & renew our sense of balance
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives them a sense of pride in their own civilization because of the prestige that science fhas in the present day world. It is furthermore a testament to the way Islam was able to cultivate various sciences extensively without becoming alienated from the Islamic world view and without creating a science whose application would destroy the world of nature and the harmony that must exist between man and the natural environment.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or matrix wherein meaning occurs and proliferates. In the absence of writing, we find ourselves situated in the field of discourse as we are embedded in the natural landscape; indeed, the two matrices are not separable. We can no more stabilize the language and render its meanings determinate than we can freeze all motion and metamorphosis within the land.
The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist, or fascist. We do not create or destroy (produce or consume) anything in a physical sense- we merely transform or rearrange. And the inevitable cost of arranging greater order in one part of the system (the human economy) is creating a more than offsetting amount of disorder elsewhere (the natural environment).
Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of plutocracy, oligarchy, and mounting theocracy that rule our state? How do we address the self-inflicted catastrophes that devastated our natural environment? So large is our malaise that no single writer can encompass it. We have no Emerson or Whitman among us. An institutionalized counterculture condemns individuality as archaic and depreciates intellectual values, even in the universities. (The Anatomy of Influence)
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!
In terms of making TV drama, not everything has to make sense. In cinema, you usually strive for reality and a natural environment, but in TV, it's more acceptable to do something crazy and break with naturalism.
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.
By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better