When the Trees Say Nothing Quotes

“In our present attitude the natural world remains a commodity to be bought and sold, not a sacred reality to be venerated.”
― Thomas Merton, When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature

“The camera does not know what it takes: it captures materials with which you reconstruct not so much what you saw as what you thought you saw. Hence the best photography is aware, mindful, of illusion and uses illusion, permitting and encouraging it—especially unconscious and powerful illusions that are not normally admitted on the scene.”
― Thomas Merton, When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature

“the need to develop a mutually enhancing mode of human presence to the natural world will be a central concern in every phase of human activity.”
― Thomas Merton, When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature

“book.”
― Thomas Merton, When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature

“Perhaps the book of life, in the end, is the book of what one has lived and if one has lived nothing, he is not in the book of life.”
― Thomas Merton, When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature