Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

It is funny how we talk about nature as this separate entity when we are nature, and nature is us.

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.

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

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

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

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

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.

Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.

We have no outside point of view. We are nature too.

There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

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.

To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.

I am two with nature.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also... your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.