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…
Wisdom quotes
Quotes, aphorisms and advices about Nature from the spiritual Traditions of humankind.
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…
Thomas Traherne
Centuries of Meditation1908
The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of…
Titus Burckhardt
Mirror of the Intellect1987
The spiritual contemplation of nature, which perceives, through the fundamental and permanent forms, their prototypes and their eternal…
Chief Seattle / Seathl
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.
Rachel Carston
The Sense of Wonder1998
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us,…
Marie-Madeleine Davy
La Montagne et sa symbolique1996
In the mystery of eternity, the experience of a bliss, even a passing one, extends to all human…
Irenaeus of Lyon
The initial step for a soul to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.
Hildegard von Bingen
Liber Scivias1150
All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of…
Plato
Plato's Best Thoughts
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.