Gayle Forman Quotes

She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.

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.

You are the land. The land is you.

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.

We are all part of the same energy that envelops.

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

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

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

Love is the energy from which all people and things are made. You are connected to everything in your world through love.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what the wood harbors, and the wood gives itself away to that intimacy, the manner in which we and the world meet each new day.

Souls and bodies should go on together.

If you are the lantern, I am the flame; If you are the lake, then I am the rain; If you are the desert, I am the sea; If you are the blossom, I am the bee; If you are the fruit, then I am the core; If you are the rock, then I am the ore; If you are the ballad, I am the word; If you are the sheath, then I am the sword.

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.

Some things are created to be together.

Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.

You made peace,” said the buffalo man. “You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were here—and the people who worshiped them were here—because it suits us that they are here. But we can change our minds. And perhaps we will.

And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

I am two with nature.