Quotes about Connection

Alone in distant woods or fields, in unpretending sprout lands or pastures tracked by rabbits, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day like this, when a villager would be thinking of his inn, I come to myself. I once more feel myself grandly related. This cold and solitude are friends of mine.

In my house we were so near that we could not begin to hear -- we could not speak low enough to be heard; as when you throw two stones into calm water so near that they break each other's undulations.

Hard and steady and engrossing labor with the hands, especially out of doors, is invaluable to the literary man and serves him directly.

I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets, Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in.

I have come to this hill to see the sun go down, to recover sanity and put myself again in relation with Nature.

Man needs not only to be spiritualized, but naturalized.

We are more of the earth, Farther from heaven these days.

It often happens that a human is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

The poem of the world is uninterrupted, but few are the ears that hear it.

is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely?

There can be no very black melancholy for him who has his senses still and lives in the midst of nature.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.