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Nature Quotes by Alice Walker

38 Nature quotes by Alice Walker

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The earth is described as wise and holding everyone accountable for how they treat it. Walker points out that even twisted, bent trees are still beautiful, showing that imperfection can be perfect. She also imagines living as a tree, river, or star, feeling that nature lets her express herself fully.

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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

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The nature of this flower is to bloom.

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It is natural to want to have a future.

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Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

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Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

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I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate…

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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.

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Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.

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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

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How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really,…

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Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original…

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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that.…

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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that.…

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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth,…

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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.…

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I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking…

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I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most…

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“The Nature of This Flower Is to Bloom Rebellious. Living. Against the Elemental Crush. A Song of Color Blooming For Deserving Eyes.…

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“… People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the…

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I want something else; a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism.…

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I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences…

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The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing.…

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“In nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful.”

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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

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The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks…

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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God.…

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Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with…

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I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's…

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Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if…

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Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind…

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I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.

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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our…

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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the…

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I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that…

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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my…