CURATED COLLECTION

Our Connection to Nature

We didn't come into the world — we came out of it, and these quotes remember that.

50 quotes found

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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

—William WordsworthPoet

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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The earth remembers its children, even in the silence of their departure.

—Namdeo Dhondo MahanorPoet

Contemporary ERA • South Asia

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The land speaks, if we only learn how to listen with our hearts.

—Manulani Aluli MeyerScholar

Contemporary ERA • Oceania

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White clouds embrace green mountains; clear water reflects jade.

—Wang WeiPoet & Painter

Medieval ERA • East Asia

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The beauty of the world is almost the only way by which we can allow God to penetrate us.

—Simone WeilPhilosopher, Mystic & Activist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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My mother was a child of the water. My father a child of the fire.

—Grace NicholsPoet

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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The land is a living thing, breathing, feeling.

—Hone TuwharePoet

Post-War ERA • Oceania

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I can hear you making small holes in the silence, rain.

—Hone TuwharePoet

Post-War ERA • Oceania

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Everything is alive, everything breathes, everything thinks. Everything is in love.

—Boris PasternakPoet, Novelist & Doctor

Post-War ERA • Eastern Europe

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The earth is my mother; she does not ask what I have done.

—Namdeo Dhondo MahanorPoet

Post-War ERA • South Asia

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First winter rain, the world and I are young.

—Matsuo BashoPoet

Renaissance ERA • East Asia

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Listen more to things than to beings. Hear the fire's voice, hear the water's voice.

—Birago DiopPoet & Writer

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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The earth is the source of all our joys and all our sorrows.

—Knut HamsunNovelist

Early Modern ERA • Nordic

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Someone once said that if you don't know the woods, you don't know anything.

—Mary OliverPoet

Digital Age ERA • North America

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We sit together, the mountains and I, until only the mountains remain.

—Li BaiPoet

Medieval ERA • East Asia

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Nature is a book, each page revealing divine order to the observant mind.

—Ibn TufaylPhilosopher & Physician

Medieval ERA • MENA

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I love not man the less, but Nature more.

—Lord ByronPoet

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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I sit alone in the bamboo grove, playing my lute and humming.

—Wang WeiPoet & Painter

Medieval ERA • East Asia

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The earth is my mother, the sky my father. All creatures are my siblings.

—Bahinabai ChaudhariPoet

Early Modern ERA • South Asia

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Poetry is simply the breath of the living earth.

—Delia DomínguezPoet

Contemporary ERA • Latin America

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