Nature Affinity Quotes

To be honest with you, the forest resonates with me more, like instinctually, than the sea does.

For all my life I have had a deep connection to the natural world.

The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.

I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.

Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.

I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.

Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair.