Ancestors Quote by Catherine Crowe

“Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound and penetrating influence of nature knows this.”

— Victor Hugo

“I feel the nights stretching away thousands long behind the days till they reach the darkness where all of me is ancestor.”

— Annie Finch

“It can be said that we are built by many things. Biology and lineage. Grit and moonlight and ocean stone. By fire and water…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

“Without ties to our ancestors, we are lonely specks of dust, adrift and floating, attached to nothing and no one.”

— Tess Gerritsen

“You know, there's a place we all inhabit, but we don't much think about it, we're scarcely conscious of it, and it lasts for…

— Jerry Spinelli

“Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in…

— Elizabeth A. Johnson

“Yet there is so much that fills me: plants, animals, clouds, day and night, and the eternal in man. The more uncertain I have…

— Carl Gustav Jung

“Nature, or anything that reminds me of nature, disturbs me; it is too large, too complicated, above all too utterly pointless and incomprehensible.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Human beings have always been an unfinished species, a story in the middle, a succession of families, tribes, and societies in transition to new…

— Tony Hiss

“Ancestors from all times have shared their essence with you. Accept the light and let go of the rest.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“…Your hands bring a breath of inviolable distances as elusive as ideas. And the ambiguous sway of the moon, of the gentlest, if you…

— Giuseppe Ungaretti

“As we embrace our passions and delve into the mystery of life, we unite with the majestic complexity of nature; and if we follow…

— Sebastian Pole