Environmental Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.

— Maya Angelou

Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies, or in…

— Winona LaDuke

“What an irony it is that these living beings whose shade we sit in, whose fruit we eat, whose limbs we climb, whose roots…

— Jim Robbins

We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without…

— Thomas Moore

Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy, since they cannot change their places, are witnesses of all the changes…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

— Carl Sagan

“A spiritual tradition is not a shallow stream in which one can wet one’s feet and then beat a quick retreat to the shore.…

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And only then…

— David Abram

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

— Rabindranath Tagore

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling…

— Muriel Barbery

Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ. Biologically, in…

— Elizabeth A. Johnson

Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air. And…

— Rainer Maria Rilke