Wisdom quotes

Quotes, aphorisms and advices about Nature from the spiritual Traditions of humankind.

Dorothee Sölle

Walk joyfully on the earth and respond to that of God in every human being.

Nature is neither a blind mechanism nor a mere material existence; it is a living expression — a…

Faced with the majesty of nature, the botanist falls silent; contemplation begins.

To educate is to teach how to look inward, to cultivate mindfulness, compassion, and reverence for life. It…

All Nature in her pristine state is something intrinsically sacred, it has the specific quality of wholeness, holiness…

“To rebuild our ties with the Earth, we need a whole asceticism of thought and action. (…) The…

“Once the physical world is recognized as real, and once in touch with the immanent spiritual life, every…

“The One passes through us and, in doing so, enlivens us. It doesn’t demand our attention; it sees…

Pervasive rationalistic, technical and bureaucratic ways of thinking have emptied life of meaning by destroying what Berger calls…

The land is sacred, it is the basis of our identity. Respecting and protecting it is protecting the…