Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night..

Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the complex web of time and li….

I am glad that the country world...retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of reality, of its vocabulary of definite ter….

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach..

The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull….

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places..

The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the….

The adventure of the sun is the greatest natural drama by which we live..

The creatures with whom we share the planet and whom, in our arrogance, we wrongly patronize for being lesser forms, they are not brethren, they are ….

Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the litt….

As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair..

For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizon….

Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though some scold today because you are too much….

The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have los….

Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their veins, she gives of her strength, sustai….

A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the whole to….

Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks and balances, its measu….

When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind ….

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well ….

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man..

We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals..