Henry David Thoreau Quotes

My engagement with mountains, rivers, and forests has been right from my childhood. I have lived in the jungles by myself; I have floated down rivers. So, I didn't experience these rivers, mountains, forests as some mythological figures but as thriving, living entities.

I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia Basin for quite a while, and I have had this strong feeling about it for many years.

I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

It's very easy to lose track of the environment around you, to lose touch with the present.

It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment, and to appreciate the natural riches there first-hand.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

The world is a fascinating, difficult place, and in order to take full advantage of what the planet has to offer, we need to see and hear natural things.

Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Study nature, not books.

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences.

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

An environment is precisely something one is unable to point to yet is strangely there nonetheless.

I have grown up on a diet of sunrise picnics, learning the names of butterflies, planting trees.

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.