“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
“In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life.” PastValuesWishAnimalMysteryStandardsAcknowledgeManifestationDistinctionAbandonedLiving Things Author:Albert Schweitzer
“Golden eagles don`t mate with bald eagles, deer don`t mate with antelope, gray wolves don`t mate with red wolves. Just look at domesticated animals, at mongrel dogs, and mixed breed horses, and you`ll know the Great Mystery didn`t intend them to be that way. We weakened the species and introduced disease by mixing what should be kept seperate. Among humans, intermarriage weakens the respect people have for themselves and for their traditions. It undermines clarity of spirit and mind.” PeopleKnowsWayShouldMindHumansLooksSpiritAnimalMysteryDogDiseaseRedTraditionHorseSpeciesGoldenClarityGrayMatesEaglesDeerMixingRespect PeopleDomesticated AnimalsAntelopesBald EagleIntermarriage Author:Russell Means
“Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal.” IfsWorldLoveWholeLightLastsGrowsUnderstandingAnimalMysteryCreationUniversalPlantWhole WorldPerceiveSandRaysGrainLeafsAnimal LoveGrains Of SandGod's CreationRays Of LightMystery Of God Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that went before: which is to say, our lives? So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.” ThinkingMenEndsStoriesLeftBornChanceAnimalOur LivesMysterySpeciesFinalsTalesMake SenseSpokesMakersImitationFinishingEnviousGift From God Author:Clive Barker
“We lay on the ground and kissed. Perhaps you smile. That we only lay on the ground and kissed. You young people can lend your bodies now, play with them, give them as we could not. But remember that you have paid a price: that of a world rich in mystery and delicate emotion. It is not only species of animal that die out. But whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know. But pity yourself for what it did.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldGivingPlayWholeFeelingsBodyPastRememberYoungDiesAnimalEmotionRichWiseMysteryPaidLaysSpeciesYour BodyPityDelicate Author:John Fowles
“A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all other towns alike. And a town has a whole emotion. How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences.” WholeSeemsMovingAnimalEmotionBoysMysteryFeetNewsTownsShouldersNervousFasterFenceNervous System Book:The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Source: The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)