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“We need to preserve these sacred locations for ourselves, for the species of plants and animals that coexist in harmony there, and for the future generations of humankind that will need to be refreshed, renewed and healed by them.”

Needs Nature Animal Generations Buddhism Harmony Sacred Plant Species Preserves Humankind Location Future Generation Healed Coexist Plants And Animals

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.”

“Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred; Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.”

Hands Running Faces Hate Courses Nature Built Sacred Running Away Sanctity Runaway

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'”

Men Should Art Soul Artist Names Term Nature Perception Art Is Sacred Mere Senses Perceive Accurate Imitation Veils Reproduction

Book:The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings

Source: The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings

“No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.”

Law Names Nature Constitution Sacred Self Reliance Good And Bad Reliance

Book:Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity

Source: Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.”

Nature Community Sacred Desert

Author:Thomas Berry

“Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that of the blessed word 'evolution' in the late nineteenth.”

Science Next Nature Natural Century Evolution Late Blessed Sacred Chains Phrases

Author:Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

“I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.”

“I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.”

Nature Sacred Guides Obedience Implicit Ordinances

Book:Cicero: The Orations Translated by Duncan, the Offices by Cockman, and the Cato and Lælius by Melmoth

Source: Cicero: The Orations Translated by Duncan, the Offices by Cockman, and the Cato and Lælius by Melmoth

“I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself what a wonderful world”

Thinking World Night Nature Dark White Environment Wonderful Tree Sky Red Blue Blessed Sacred Green Rose Clouds Natural Environment Red Rose Wonderful World

Author:Louis Armstrong

“We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.”

Knows Needs Remember Song Nature Walks Sacred Sacred Places

Book:No borders: new poems

Source: No borders: new poems

“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.”

Trying Nature Mistake Design Sacred Contrary My Mistakes Rationalize

Author:Salvador Dali

“How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.”

People Ifs Ideas Earth Water Nature Air Sky Land Strange Sacred Sells Warmth Seattle Sparkle Freshness Land And Water Dark Woods Body Heat

Book:Chief Seattle's Testimony

Source: Chief Seattle's Testimony