Joseph Campbell Quotes

We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.

Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing - and that thing was story.

Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you’ve got to get out and see God’s beauty of the world.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.

A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again.

There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.

The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

Time is the substance of which we are made

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us.

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing river, somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky.

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!

Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.

From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations.