I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes our inherent connection to nature and how it ultimately influences our lives despite our attempts to assert control over it.
Alice Hoffman's quote reflects the intimate bond between humanity and the natural world, suggesting that while we may strive to dominate our surroundings, events like snowstorms and droughts remind us of our vulnerability and dependence on the environment. It highlights the inevitability of this connection and the futility of denying it, urging us to recognize our shared fate with the elements of nature.
In practice
This quote can be shared at an environmental awareness event to highlight our reliance on nature.
Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then hooped his fingers through hers. Gretel looked up at him, so startled she might as well have been shot. 'I just wanted to wake you up', he said. Which is exactly what he did. One look at him and her heart was racing. One look, and whatever had been before was all over.
Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually, you pick yourself up and look out the window, and once you do you see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still. There are the same apple trees and the same songbirds, and over our heads, the very same sky that shines like heaven, so far above us we can never hope to reach such heights.
It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
Love life first, then march through the gates of each season; go inside nature and develop the discipline to stop destructive behavior; learn tenderness toward experience, then make decisions based on creating biological wealth that includes all people, animals, cultures, currencies, languages, and the living things as yet undiscovered; listen to the truth the land will tell you; act accordingly.
Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.
We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.
The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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