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Because we all share this small planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. That is not just a dream, but a necessity.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935Nobel lecture (1989)
- War & Peace
What I stand for
is what I stand on.
Wendell Berry1934–2026“Below” in A Part (1980)
- Character
It is impossible to care for each other more or differently than we care for the earth.
Wendell Berry1934–2026The Unsettling of America (1977), Chapter Seven: The Body and the Earth
Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person’s property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Metamorphoses (Transformations), Book VI, 349-351; translation by Michael Simpson
There is no reason to be less moved by nature around us simply because it’s revealed to have more layers of complexity than we first observed.
Robert Sapolskyborn 1957Emperor Has No Clothes Award acceptance speech (2003)
- Science
Most cooks when they are young tend to overwork their food to hide their lack of confidence and appreciation for Mother Nature. In time they learn that she is the true artist⁠—we’re just the cooks.
Marco Pierre Whiteborn 1961Marco Pierre White in Hell’s Kitchen (2008)
- Food
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Faith
I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
Emily Brontë1818–1848Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter IXIn context
Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter IIn context
- Thinking
O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies! not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter LXXIn context
- Philosophy
Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter CXXXVIn context
- Time
It’s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many.
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter XIXIn context
Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIIn context
- History
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky⁠—seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIIIn context
The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part I, Episode 1In context