Sue Hubbell Quotes

High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world.

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

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.

We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

No species is more important than others.

There is not a sprig of grass that grows uninteresting to me.

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

The key to nature's therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There's amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted - but that's not your act of creation, it's your act of joining in.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

To see Earth fully we already need to love it

The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.

In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.