Juliet Marillier Quotes

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.

The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.

We are the children equally of the Sky and the Earth.

Sky and sea, keep harm from me. Earth and fire, bring my desire.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning.

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

I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

When you give, it comes back to you.

Nature has a way of giving back. And we can never go against it.

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

For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the absolute essential bedrock of our lives. This is the source of where my power lies, the source of where all our power lies. We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And we forget that. We become disconnected, we lose our center point of gravity, that stillness that allows us to listen to life on a deeper level and to meet each other in a fully authentic and present way.

The strong need the weak as much as the weak need the strong

The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?

That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.

Here, fire turns into water; Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun. There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction; Everything supports everything else.

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world's.

As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.

Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?