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.
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.
"One impulse from a vernal wood
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.
Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."
Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.
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.
Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's all there is. That's the whole economy. That's where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.
Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside
While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
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