Nature Reverence Quotes

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.

I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands, and all other living things will be so strong that no narrow ideology based upon politics or economics will overcome it.

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.

I learned from my parents to revere nature. Their way of teaching my siblings and I to respect the environment was to be in it, and so we spent a great deal of time outdoors.

Today is the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Let us work and pray.

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

Hiking. I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains...the se mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them.

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

Once the Western mind was disconnected from its sense of divine responsibility and genuine reverence towards nature, all hell broke loose. And that’s where we are now.

Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour of the day. And as the hermit's evening hymn goes up from the deep solitude below me, I experience that serene exaltation of sentiment of which music, literature, and religion are but the faint types and symbols.

I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

I am a witch, by which I mean that I am somebody who believes that the earth is sacred, and that women and women's bodies are one expression of that sacred being.

The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then becomes simple: to approach with an uncalculating mind, with an attitude of regard...be alert for its openings, for that moment when something sacred reveals itself within the mundane, and you know the land knows you are there.

Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.

I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.