Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?

The roots that weave up my right arm and onto my neck are my way of connecting with the earth: the earth's roots carry water like a human's veins carry blood.

I've tried very hard to stay grounded with my family, my ol' buddies, nature, music, and creativity.

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.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally.

Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.

It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.

There is no gardening without humility

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!

Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God.

When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a hippie. But trees are really inspiring to me. They're like the masters of the earth.

I'm barefoot whenever I can be.

It's just an amazing feeling to walk barefooted in some nice grass.

Without its roots in reality, I don't think escapism can survive.

We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter. The sea is the cradle we all rocked out of, but its to dust that we go. From the time that water invented us, we began to seek out dirt. The further we separate ourselves from the dirt, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienation is a disease of the unsoiled.

My best source of grounding are animals and nature. Animals live more in the moment and don't worry so much! And nature is proof of a greater power than myself. Both put things in perspective, or at least gently move us forward.

What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.

I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.