Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development which our society is pursuing. A purely economic and technological understanding of progress, to the extent that it fails to acknowledge its intrinsic limitations and to take into consideration the integral good of humanity, will inevitably provoke negative consequences for individuals, peoples and creation itself.

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth that can do it. So I suppose my mission is to reach as many of those young people as I can through my own efforts.

In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends.

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.

...in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found.

Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an "Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition" right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?

Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for our society is to create the conditions under which this is possible. It is the most urgent task of our times.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?

If we recognize the interconnectedness of the changes our planet needs, we become true solutionaries and our united power is unparalleled.

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not a happier or a better population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it.

The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.

Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.

Living in balance and purity is the highest good for you and the earth.

This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man, to enjoy.

Don't go chasin' waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

It is safe to be me. I love life. I am always safe and secure. I move forward in life with joy and ease. All is well in my world.

It dawned on me then that as long as I could laugh, I was safe from the world; and I have learned since that laughter keeps me safe from myself, too.

There is no human being on earth who does not have the capacity to offer the message of peace to the world at large. But what is needed now is the soulful willingness.