Claire Thompson > Quotes

“You didn’t come into this world; you came out of it,
like a wave from the ocean.”
― Claire Thompson, Mindfulness and the Natural World: Bringing our Awareness Back to Nature

“You didn’t come into this world; you came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. ALAN WATTS (1915–73)”
― Claire Thompson, Mindfulness and the Natural World: Bringing our Awareness Back to Nature

“there is no other animal on Earth that kills its own species in the name of abstract concepts, religion, beliefs and ideals, is there?”
― Claire Thompson, Mindfulness and the Natural World: Bringing our Awareness Back to Nature

“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.”
― Claire Thompson, Mindfulness and the Natural World: Bringing our Awareness Back to Nature

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’ FROM ‘THE BELL JAR’, SYLVIA PLATH HEINEMANN, LONDON, 1963”
― Claire Thompson, Mindfulness and the Natural World: Bringing our Awareness Back to Nature