“Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.” LightAnimalMysteryPlantEnvironmentalPerceiveRaysLeafsAnimal LoveRays Of LightMystery Of God Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.” My OwnAnimalMysteryPaintingReflectionCompanionMuseNature And Animals Author:Katherine Dunn
“At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have made more progress. At ninety I'll have penetrated the mystery of things. At a hundred I shall have reached something marvellous, but when I am a hundred and ten everything I do, the smallest dot, will be alive.” LittlesMadeRealThreeAnimalAliveProgressMysteryTenBirdHundredStructurePlantFishesSmallestSeventiesInsectsNinetyEightyDotsMarvellous Author:Hokusai
“I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange... There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.” InspirationalI CanMotivationalForceHoursAnimalBehindsSilenceWatchesFireMysterySeaStrangeMountainAncientGrayDelicateSooner Or LaterElephantsReservedEnchantedMountain Peaks Book:African Silences Source: African Silences
“Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.” TwoIndividualUnderstandingWaterAnimalAliveMysteryMastersSpeechThirdsRemoveSublimeOxygenExplainingMuteTrinityHydrogenRecapitulation Author:Mark Twain
“The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.” MindSeemsAnimalMysteryModernDepthAnalysisNuminous Author:Terence McKenna