Connection to the Earth Quotes

Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about. ... It takes great courage to look where you have to look, which is in yourself, in your experience, in your relationship with fellow beings, your relationship to the earth, to the spirit or to the first cause—to look at them and make something of them.

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

The man of humanity delights in mountains

Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.

Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.

Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.

I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.

When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?

Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?

I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.

One way of celebrating the Solstice is to consider it a sacred time of reflection, release, restoration, and renewal.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain

In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.