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However true it may be that we have estranged ourselves from Nature, it is nonetheless true that we feel we are in her and belong to her. It can be only her own working which pulsates also in us. We must find the way back to her again.

— Rudolf Steiner

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry.

— Rudolf Steiner

Within us - the heart of us, really - is a 'ground' that is to our thoughts and feelings, our relationships with others and ourselves, as is the Earth to the leaves that first race across her and then, no longer able to run, give themselves up to nourish her body so that she may give birth again come the spring.

— Guy Finley

I'm just a sensitive little soul who's put so much into her career that I haven't had enough energy or time left over to sustain a relationship.

— Kiki Dee

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

— Anna Julia Cooper

And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being.

— Eric Roberts

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

— Susan Griffin

✗Opposing Perspectives

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

— Michel de Montaigne

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.

— Richard Le Gallienne

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

— M. Scott Peck

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

— Clarence Day