The Wild Nature Quotes by John Burroughs, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Laozi, Helen Keller, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, John Muir and many others.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
With the wild nature as ally and teacher we see not through two eyes but through the many eyes of intuition. With intuition we are like the starry night, we gaze at the world through a thousand eyes. The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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”.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
We all have one, in one form or another. To me, this dragon is both the wild nature of ourselves and our conscience in his embodiment of the Old Code ethical behavior and morality. At the same time, he’s our unconscious, the place from which our dreams arise. I just spoke my lines to the dragon within me.
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.
To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one’s own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one’s own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
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.
