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These words are not my own and I take no credit for them. I share them here as a resource for anyone seeking personal growth or as source material for their own creative expansion of the collective.
How can humanity, which is utterly dependent on the gifts of nature, ever aspire to become responsible for the existence of those very gifts? How can a single strand in the web of life ever expect to be responsible for the whole?
Instead of its utility, we must come to value the natural world for its beauty, uniqueness, and our sacred interconnectedness with it.
We are one with nature — literally intertwined with and constituted by nature — and therefore what we do to nature we do to ourselves.
Nature teaches that water in its various forms - steam, glaciers, rivers, and springs - is as powerful a catalyst for change as the solar principle's fire.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
Natural history tells us of a haphazard and casual transformation of species over hundreds of millions of years of devouring and being devoured. The biological and political history of men is an elaborate repetition of the same thing.
There does seem to be unlimited knowledge present in nature, it is true, but it can be comprehended by consciousness only when the time is ripe for it.
“Do you not think that all life comes from the mountain?”
What had led me astray during the crisis was my passion for being alone, my delight in solitude. Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.
…you and I are both creatures, and how can one creature set himself so high as to judge another creature?
It remains quite natural for men to quarrel and to struggle for superiority over one another. How then have we "conquered nature"?
In spite of our proud domination of nature, we are still her victims, for we have not even learned to control our own nature.
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