Wisdom quotes

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

Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann1998

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious (…) She is always right, and the errors…

Dharma Rain. Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism2000

We can reframe our pain as compasion. As we open to our anguish, we can see it as…

The Essential Sri Anandamayi Ma2007

In water and on land, in trees, shrubs, and creepers-everywhere in the whole universe abides my Beloved. Further,…

Bartholomew I of Constantinople

Encountering the Mystery.Understanding Orthodox Christianity Today2008

Spiritual life requires proper veneration -and not an absolute worship- of the creation of God. Our relationship with…

The Soul of the Indian1911

Among us there were no more temples or sanctuaries than those of nature. Being a natural man, the…

Centuries of Meditation1908

The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of…

Mirror of the Intellect1987

The spiritual contemplation of nature, which perceives, through the fundamental and permanent forms, their prototypes and their eternal…

From the speech of Chief Seathl / Ted Perry1854

All things are connected, like the blood that unites our family. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does it to himself.