Earth Connection Quotes

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.

Earth heals me better than any medicine.

I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.

The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms, thinking of nothing, cramming the black honey of summer into my mouth; all day my body accepts what it is. In the dark creeks that run by there is this thick paw of my life darting among the black bells, the leaves; there is this happy tongue.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full.

I'm barefoot whenever I can be.

To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.

If I find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine. It soothes my hurts as well as when I sat in my mother's lap in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the green meadow is her lap.

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.

In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.

Our feet are our body's connection to the earth.

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.

What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.

People ask me, 'What is the mystique of the Texas songwriter?' Well, we ran barefoot from March until November. I think there's something about being a barefoot kid that gets you closer to the place - you take root.