Ian Somerhalder Quotes

The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.

We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.

Human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.

There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else.

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

The trees are our lungs, the rivers our circulation, the air our breath, and the earth our body.

We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves.

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

Nature does not compartmentalise. Its instinct is integrative and holistic.

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

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.

Always acknowledge your position in the food chain... They eat because you grow the food.

The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.

They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.

In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.

We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself also deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is the result of these mutual reactions.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.