Wisdom quotes
Quotes, aphorisms and advices about Nature from the spiritual Traditions of humankind.
Confucius / K’ung Fu Tzu
Analectes / Selected Sayings-479
When the natural prevails over the culture, it gives a savage; when culture prevails over the natural, it…
Matthieu Ricard
A Plea for the Animals2016
It is incumbent upon us all to continue to favor the advent of justice and impartial compassion towards…
William Law
The Way to Divine Knowledge1752
This world, with all its Stars, elements, and Creaters, is come out from the invisible World; it has…
Anagarika Govinda
The Way of the White Clouds1966
If we look at the world … with the eyes of the spirit, we will discover that the…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann1998
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious (…) She is always right, and the errors…
Joanna Macy
Dharma Rain. Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism2000
We can reframe our pain as compasion. As we open to our anguish, we can see it as…
Anandamayi Ma
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…
Ohiyesa / Charles A. Eastman
The Soul of the Indian1911
Among us there were no more temples or sanctuaries than those of nature. Being a natural man, the…
