Nature Philosophy Quotes

“When you are in tune with nature, you stop seeing birds as birds; trees as trees; humans as humans. They all become a vast extension of yourself.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“A rainbow is a Cheshire Cat wearing Jacob's coat of many colours”
― Steve O'Grady, Right Back at You - Being Human in a Simulated Universe

“The clear water was at our knees, then at our thighs. How clear it was only this walking into it could reveal. To look through it was to discover its own properties. What we saw under water had a sharper clarity than what we saw through air. We waded on into the brightness, and the width of the water increased, as it always does when one is on or in it, so that the loch no longer seemed narrow, but the far side was a long way off. Then I looked down; and at my feet there opened a gulf of brightness so profound that the mind stopped. We were standing on the edge of a shelf that ran some yards into the loch before plunging down to the pit that is the true bottom. And through that inordinate clearness we saw to the depths of the pit. So limpid was it that every stone was clear.”
― Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain

“This world can overwhelm. But if you slow down, and sit under a tree long enough, it’ll tell you everything. And if you forget who you are, draw something. Or go walk alone. Nature remembers you.”
― Robert Redford

“Isn’t it trust
that lets the river give itself to the sea
not knowing if its name will survive the salt..
that lets the moon surrender to darkness
certain the sun will one day find her..
that sends roots downward
into what they cannot see
sure the unseen will answer..
that carries the wind
to rest against the mountain
knowing the stone will not turn away..!?

Isn’t it trust
this primal covenant beneath all motion
where yin carries a fragment of yang
and yang holds the shadow of yin
each completing the other
without asking to be assured..!?
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― Monika Ajay Kaul