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“All nature is the temple; earth the altar.”

Earth Nature Temples Altars

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!”

Nature Cities Too Much Mad Clever Temples Madhouses

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.”

“Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature. No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body.”

Source: What Mr. Darwin Saw in His Voyage Round the World in the Ship

“On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!”

Should God Body Science Stars Nature Assuming Assumption Temples Heavenly Reverence Entering Heavenly Bodies

Author:Seneca the Younger