If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity. If there's no relationship with nature then you become a killer; then you kill baby seals, whales, dolphins, and man either for gain, for "sport," for food, or for knowledge. Then nature is frightened of you, withdrawing its beauty. You may take long walks in the woods or camp in lovely places but you are a killer and so lose their friendship. You probably are not related to anything to your wife or your husband.
Interpretation
Disconnecting from nature leads to a loss of humanity and compassion towards all living beings.
This quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes the importance of our connection with nature and how losing that connection can result in harmful behaviors towards the environment and its inhabitants. When we disregard our bond with the natural world, we may become desensitized, viewing other beings merely as resources or targets for exploitation, thus severing our deeper relationships with both nature and our fellow humans.
In practice
Discussing environmental issues at a community gathering.
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Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
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If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Nature is always behind the age
The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry
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