Quotes about nature

By honoring the knowledge in the land, and caring for its keepers, we start to become indigenous to place.

Wild things should not be for sale.

I wonder if much that ails our society stems from the fact that we have allowed ourselves to be cut off from that love of, and from, the land. It is medicine for broken land and empty hearts.

A harvest is made honorable when it sustains the giver as well as the taker.

The truth of our relationship with the soil is written more clearly on the land than in any book.

To be indigenous is to protect life on earth.

To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language.

The language reminds us, in every sentence, of our kinship with all of the animate world.

The land knows you, even when you are lost.

The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Exactly how they do this, we don’t yet know. But what we see is the power of unity. What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together.

The sphere of a wise woman is beyond herself, beyond her family, beyond the human community, embracing the planet, mothering the earth.

It was the wild strawberries, beneath dewy leaves on an almost-summer morning, who gave me my sense of the world, my place in it. [...] Even now, after more than fifty Strawberry Moons, finding a patch of wild strawberries still touches me with a sensation of surprise, a feeling of unworthiness and gratitude for the generosity and kindness that comes with an unexpected gift all wrapped in red and green. "Really? For me? Oh, you shouldn't have." After fifty years they still raise the question of how to respond to their generosity. Sometimes it feels like a silly question with a very simple answer: eat them.