Victoria Coren Mitchell Quotes

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use 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.

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

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

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

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.

Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow-mountaineers. Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go.

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.

Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet we should not attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together into a higher unity.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

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.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.

We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

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

What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.