Virginia Woolf Quotes

My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator of the sentient sapient and the created we have a symbiotic relationship.

The earth was our home, she would have said, but no less was it home to the oxen that pulled our plows or the elephants that roamed in the forest and worked for us. They lived with us as partners whose well-being was inseparable from our own.

The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.

You want to live in harmony with nature and with each other.

Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a welcoming home to so many birds and animals. There is a rhythm to this togetherness.

The key to nature's therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There's amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted - but that's not your act of creation, it's your act of joining in.

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it.

The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

I think coexisting with another life form is a very rich experience. It's why people keep plants and animals.

Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms.

Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do for us. Blossom, trees; ripen, fields; be warm for them, suns; be fertile for them, planets: they are our adopted daughters, and they have come home.

It seems to me that there will be a point in out development or our evolution where you put your guns aside.

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

All culture developed as some wild, raw creature strived to live better and longer.

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

Make friends with nature by working in harmony with her and she will make friends with you.

Man is not above nature, but in nature.

Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.

The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.

For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

I think on a day-to-day basis, what attracts us in coexisting with another living, evolving thing, is that you have a relationship that's different than with a piece of furniture. We experience the cycle of life through these other beings.