When I turn away from nature — human, animal, earthly or cosmic — when I turn away, that is, from intimate livingness, it means, simply and always, that I am afraid. —Sanfor Goodman More about this quote Tags: fear rejection nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “nature” It has always been part of basic human experience to live in a culture of wilderness. There has been no wilderness without some kind of human presence for several hundred thousand years. Nature is not a place to visit, it is home. —Gary Snyder More about this quote Tags: humanity perception experience nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature. —Susan Griffin More about this quote Tags: identity sadness nature concept Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. —John Muir More about this quote Tags: joy nature body Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: humor nature camping Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The best time to plant an oak tree was twenty-five years ago. The second best time is today. —James Carville More about this quote Tags: nature hindsight foresight environmentalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It has always been part of basic human experience to live in a culture of wilderness. There has been no wilderness without some kind of human presence for several hundred thousand years. Nature is not a place to visit, it is home. —Gary Snyder More about this quote Tags: humanity perception experience nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature. —Susan Griffin More about this quote Tags: identity sadness nature concept Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. —John Muir More about this quote Tags: joy nature body Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: humor nature camping Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best time to plant an oak tree was twenty-five years ago. The second best time is today. —James Carville More about this quote Tags: nature hindsight foresight environmentalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email