High alert is the nature of the moment, and rightly so, but I do not intend to lose the reality that as a culture we are entering deeply mythic ground. --Martin Shaw (in How to Recapture Your Imagination)

Man instinctively regards himself as a wanderer and wayfarer, and it is second nature for him to go on pilgrimage in search of a privileged and holy place, a center and source of indefectible life. --Thomas Merton (in On the Road with Thomas Merton)

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. --Martin Luther (in Finding the Mother Tree)

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. --Gary Snyder (in Re-inhabiting the World)

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. --Soren Kierkegaard (in Prayer for Atheists)

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realize that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn. --Gunter Grass (in Old Growth: The Best Writing About Trees)

I go to nature to be soothed, healed and have my senses put in order.
--John Burroughs (in How Nature Helps Us Heal)

Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
--Albert Einstein (in Man on the Moon)

To listen to trees, nature's great connectors, is to learn how to inhabit the relationships that give life its source, substance, and beauty --David George Haskell (in The Log- Year 2)

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. --William Shakespeare (in Hargila: A Story of Love & Conservation)

Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance. --Henry David Thoreau (in Compassion Defies Death at the Turtle Hospital)

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. --Gary Snyder (in Thin Places)

We have the opportunity to lay the foundations for a way of life more aligned with the deeper truths of the Earth and our own sacred nature. --Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (in Watching River Otters)

Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature. --Carlo Petrini (in Grace Before Dinner)

Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature. --George Lakoff (in George Lakoff on Language and Climate Action)

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. --May Sarton (in How to Grow a Home)

Water is the driving force of all nature. --Leonardo da Vinci (in Water of Life)

If our starting point is a respect for nature and people, diversity is an inevitable consequence. --Helena Norberg-Hodge (in Wendell Berry and Helena Norberg-Hodge on Caretaking)

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken. --Leo Tolstoy (in Activating Moral Discomfort & Spiritual Community for the Earth)

Nature shows us the way of the cycles and impermanence of all things and awakens the heart. --Michele Kambolis (in Shinrin-Yoku: Forest Bathing)

We humans are not alone in having a sense of community, a sense of fun, a sense of wonder and awe at the beauty of nature. --James Bridle (in James Bridle: An Ecological Technology)

Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature. --Carlo Petrini (in Grace Before Dinner)

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the centre is everywhere and the circumference nowhere --Blaise Pascal (in Patterns of Extraction)

Nature is not a luxury: its presence or absence creates and causes different health outcomes for different groups of people. --Lucy Jones (in Creatures that Don't Conform)

Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day -- Mother Nature's best effort yet at contra-death. --Matt Walker (in Matt Walker: Sleep Is Your Superpower)

To be beautiful and to be calm, without mental fear, is the ideal of nature. --Richard Jefferies (in Richard Jefferies: On Nature as a Portal to Self-Transcendence)

If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature. -- (in Leave No Child Inside)

I came to see that the great matter of death is not great because it's scary but because it is profound in its immense capacity to arouse a loving nature within us. --Zenju Earthlyn Manuel (in The River of Silence)

I believe the best way to begin reconnecting humanity's heart, mind, and soul to nature is for us to share our individual stories --J. Drew Lanham (in Hope and Feathers)

When you spend any time at all paying attention to the proclivities of the natural world, you realize that nature has no problem including in its sorority the dead, dying, and ailing as fully as the lovely, healthy, and whole. --Trebbe Johnson (in 11 Interventions in the 10 Days of Your Dying)

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. --Albert Einstein (in The Bizarre Genius of a Brainless Blob)

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. --Albert Einstein (in Glacial Longings)

If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change. --Janine M. Benyus (in Breathing with the Forest)

We can find awe, then, in eight wonders of life: moral beauty, collective effervescence, nature, music, visual design, spirituality and religion, life and death, and epiphany. --Dacher Keltner (in Exploring the Science of Everyday Wonder)

By discovering nature, you discover yourself. --Maxime Lagacé (in A Look at the Rise of Nature Prescriptions)