Occupation: Writer Birth: June 1, 1888 Death: April 15, 1968
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….
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….
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….
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 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….
We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals..
It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live..
As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair..
Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself..
If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the plants, keepi….
We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more lights,….
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….
To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day..
We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly….
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….
Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night..
Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man..
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods..
Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy..
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it..