Quotes About Connections To Nature

#1. Some people hear the voice of God in their dreams or through prayer or meditation. For me, God is truly in the details - the details found in the connections between the living things on the planet all working together to maintain the atmosphere and the soil.

Timothy Goodwin

#2. Design that mimics the sensual continuity of nature's subtle connections of color, light and texture invite the viewer's receptivity.

Maggie Macnab

#3. Rather than ask why something happened (i.e. what caused it), Jung asked: What did it happen for? This same tendency appears in physics: Many modern physicists are now looking more for "connections" in nature than for causal laws (determinism).

M.L. Von Franz

#4. Wonder ... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.

Adam Smith

#5. We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings.

Olivia Wilde

#6. Suddenly I wanted the earlier version back, but there was no retrieving it. When I blurred the lines to soften them it was as if she began to disappear.

Robert Charles Wilson

#7. Gene sometimes ... well, he has his dream list.

Paul Stanley

#8. People are learning to grasp the diversity of nature, to understand its unifying principles and to sweep away the hierarchies and see the real connections.

Frank Schatzing

#9. I have very strong Canadian connections. My daughter was born there a year and half ago. But because of the nature of my job, I need to be in countries where I can get the stories that I am looking at.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#10. Any connection with nature and most connections with technology are lost. There's a belief that nature is irrelevant and that anything can be solved using the current methods--now technology; previously magic or praying.

Jacob Lund Fisker

#11. A hybrid nature of organization strikes the right balance between "virtual world" and the human connections.

Pearl Zhu

#12. What I hope my writing reflects ... is a sense of the connections between all human beings ... and a different perspective on the true nature of courage. For me, those are things worth exploring and writing about.

Chris Crutcher

#13. Nature delights in making use of the same forms in the most various biological connections: as it does, for instance, in the appearance of branch-like structures both in coral and in plants, and indeed in some forms of crystal and in certain chemical precipitates.

Sigmund Freud

#14. When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer - if we take the time to stop and tune in.

Sharon Salzberg

#15. Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

Carolyn Kizer

#16. What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost all connection to, and the nature of this lost world of the human mind is that it is a Gaian entelechy.

Terence McKenna

#17. Compelling outdoor imagery always combines some kind of personal connection to nature and skillful technique. The former seems to be a form of grace, and the latter an act of the will.

George B. Ward

#18. If you want to feel like ginger ale Claire, drink a ginger ale.

Ann Hood

#19. The world is so tremendously spectacular that every visual, sense, and sparked connection swells my unrestrained passion for life. I find I feel this the most when I am immersed in nature and sliding into the bloodstream of the wilderness.

Ian Somerhalder

#20. It has never yet been supposed, that all the facts of nature, and all the means of acquiring precision in the computation and analysis of those facts, and all the connections of objects with each other, and all the possible combinations of ideas, can be exhausted by the human mind.

Nicolas De Condorcet

#21. We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.

John Zerzan

#22. The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

Steven Pinker

#23. Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world.

Thomas Starr King

#24. The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connections
with people, with culture, with work, with nature, with our own bodies and minds

Carl Honore

#25. If we connect with nature, we can reconstruct our soul, spirit and strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. It always felt good to have that moment of resolve, like saying, "I'm gonna learn French!" It doesn't matter if you do it or not, deciding is the high, right?

Felicia Day

#27. We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us.

Sylvia Earle

#28. Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

Dennis Kucinich

#29. Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.

John Connolly

#30. It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.

David Foster Wallace

#31. We never stopped being each other.

Alicen Grey

#32. Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.

Nelly Furtado

#33. It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature
the connection between his survival and his use of reason
that capitalism recognizes and protects.

Ayn Rand