Earth and Ecology The Earth is a blessing to those upon her. —Egyptian
Do not damage the earth, or the sea, or the trees. —Book of Revelations 7:3
Men go and come, but earth abides. —Ecclesiastes, 1, 4
We didn’t inherit the land from our fathers. We are borrowing it from our children. —Amish belief
The universe is made up of stories, not atoms. —Muriel Ruckeyser. You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from a master. —St. Bernard of Clairvaux
He who follows Nature’s lantern never loses his way. —German
O Sacred Earth Mother, the trees and all nature are witnesses to your thoughts and deeds. —Winnebago Indian saying
The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow. —Ed Abbey
The essence of deep ecology is to ask deeper questions... We ask which society, which education, which form of religion is beneficial for all life on the planet as a whole. —Arne Naess
When one recognizes the unity of nature, he also perceives the singleness of mankind. —Gus Turbeville
The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences. —Planetologist Pardot Kynes, DUNE
To be solitary is alone worthy of God. —Kurdish
Eventually all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of these rocks are the timeless raindrops . Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. —Norman MacLean.
I’m often asked the question : “Is it possible to do valid rituals alone?” First of all in nature ritual, one is never alone. All the other beings of nature are present : either sun or moon, trees, plants, or animals. To consider that you are alone when you are in nature is simply a remnant of Eurocentric thinking. —Dolores LaChapelle, Sacred Land, Sacred Sex, Rapture of the Deep
Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists. — Blaise Pascal
A man said to the universe, “Sir, I exist.” “However,” replied the universe, “the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.” — Stephen Crane
Indeed I now realize that a man requires intimate and solitary contact with the wild places if he is to survive. When he is deprived of this state he begins to withdraw into himself, a prey to inner demons and the psychic wallpaper that passes for his estrangement from any genuine inner life. —James Cowan, Letters From a Wild State
If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture—that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. —Ed Abbey.
Earth-wise, we are as altars on which the divine fires can burn. The stone of the Druids is still within our bodies, as it was within theirs; for holy sacrifice or sacrilegious exploitation. —Graham Howe, The Mind of the Druid
In metaphysics, the notion that the earth and all that’s on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy. —Ed Abbey
We shall never achieve harmony with the land anymore than we shall achieve justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve, but to strive. —Aldo Leopold |
