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“Climate change is not a major issue because it will cause sea level rises or temperature increases, since we know how to live at higher elevations and regulate the temperature within our homes. It is a major issue because ecosystems are finding it difficult to adapt to the rapidity of the climate and environmental changes and are dying off, thereby accelerating the species extinction that is already underway due to our consumption habits.”

“We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.”

Source: Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings

“When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion. Peace is already there to some extent: the problem is whether we know how to touch it.”

Knows Moments Problem Reality Suffering Peace Nature Know How Insight Confusion

Book:Living Buddha, Living Christ

Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ

“Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way.”

Knows Way Looks Beautiful Nature Know How Fields Genius Green Desert Versatility Green Fields

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.”

Source: Selected poems

“The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a circle of disturbance we produce in the harmonies of nature when we throw the smallest pebble into the ocean of organic life.”

Source: Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action