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


Andreas Weber
Enlivenment. Eine Kultur des Lebens. Versuch einer Poetik für das Anthropozän2015
Our mono-cultural worldview is literally preventing us from understanding the deeper causes of our multiple crises.

David Abram
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World1997
Ecologically considered, it is not primarily our verbal statements that are “true” or “false,” but rather the kind…

Hernik Skolimowski
Living Philosophy: Eco-Philosophy as a Tree of Life1992
The three basic ecological values, namely reverence, responsibility and austerity are so interconnected that the meaning of each…

Philip Sherrard
The Rape of Man and Nature1987
The created world is God’s sacrament of Himself to Himself in His creatures: it is the means whereby…

Azad Rasool
Turning Toward the Heart2002
The path to the love of God passes through the valley of service –service not only to human…

Jalal ad Dîn Rumi
Rhymed Couplets of Deep Spiritual Meaning1273
I died to the mineral state and became a plant; I died to the vegetable state and reached…

David J. Bohm
Wholeness and the Implicate Order1980
Wholeness is what is real, and fragmentation is the response of this whole to man’s action, guided by…
Therese of Lisieux
Story of a Soul1898
If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
Lao Tse
Hua Hu Ching
A superior person takes care of the well-being of all things. He does so by accepting the responsibility…