Jon Hopkins Quotes

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

I can't be separated from nature. I am one of her faces.

I am two with nature.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

There isn't a line that you can draw between the air and your body. We are the environment.

I don't believe in the separation between mankind and nature. Mankind is nature.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.

We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.

Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.

We're getting closer to our nature.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

What is essential - the one thing that could stop us being coarsened to other lives - is that we feel a great, living wave of animal life all around us, covering the earth.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

I love nature, and I love information.

Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

There are myriads of forms and hundreds of grasses throughout the entire earth, yet each grass and each form itself is the entire earth.

When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole wilderness is unity and interrelation, is alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly.

A man is related to all nature.

In nature nothing exists alone.

Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.

We often forget that we are nature.