Nature's Silent Message Quotes

“We’ve become paranoid, worrying about everything except for what’s in front of us. Life happens now—it will never happen yesterday, and as we well know, tomorrow never comes. Until we”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“For when we disconnect we reconnect—with the truth of who we are.”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“off attackers—stay alive. But when there is no longer a need to hunt, or build our own homes, or fight, our minds begin to wander. The tool has been left unattended. Let it go too long and the brain becomes a monster—attaching itself to every whim, every desire, every problem, anything at all.”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“You mean, I shouldn’t believe everything I think? When we start to take our thoughts too seriously—this is when we lose grasp. We fall into disillusion, identifying ourselves with the complexities of the mind. The human brain was intended to be used as a tool, so that we could hunt, fish, gather nuts and berries, build shelters,”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“We live in the highly sophisticated age of targeted advertising. And this is all very well and fine and part of our culture. What’s important is to recognize that our thoughts and cravings are not entirely our own. We are what surrounds”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“So long as we remember the truth of our own identities, that first and foremost we are part of nature, connected to the mountains and deserts, rivers and streams, forests and plains, animals and plants”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“I’m clear-minded, with senses on full throttle, blood surging with oxygen, serotonin releasing into every cell. High on glory, bathed by the light of God.”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“Nature passes no judgment. We are all just passing through, Struggling to live, destined to die.”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“When we stop taking our thoughts so seriously, they lose their power, trailing off into some kind of distant background noise. Now there’s nothing left but my footsteps, my steady beating heart.”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“Why must we desire to live as long as possible? Why not live until life is no longer fun—then move on, leaving room for new birth, so that they too might enjoy Earth’s amazing wonders, as have we? Death is natural, just like birth, and there is nothing wrong with it. It’s living for the sake of living that causes pain. When we learn to celebrate life and move on, leaving the Earth just as we found it—others may do the same.”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“In a world where everyone feels separate, it’s simply too much to overcome. But here I’m surrounded by trees, and they are enlightened! And the rocks—enlightened! Among them, my state of disconnect is the exception, and I’m attuned to broader perspective. Welcomed to a new world.”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“When Mother Nature no longer senses us as her own, we shall be cast aside like unwanted orphans. How much lovelier to surrender to the flow? Welcoming nature’s message with open hearts. Embracing our mother, basking in the love we were meant to live in all the time. We cannot save the Earth. The Earth does not need saving. We can only save ourselves.”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“prove that nature wants us to survive, but if we become disconnected, no longer a functioning part of the organism, we may be mistaken for a disease, an unwanted parasite, an intruder, an alien. Like a liver that refuses to filter blood, an intestine that refuses to digest food—we will be rejected, terminated. Staying in tune with nature is not just a lifestyle choice, it’s crucial to our health and well-being, and the health and well-being of the larger organism known”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“out. In awe, we become aware that there is something far greater than ourselves. And it’s filled with beauty and glory and brilliance. And we can dance around the truth all we want, trying to reduce the world into words and symbols, scientific facts and charts, but when we get down to the essence of things, we cannot escape the undeniable truth: Love is all there is. Love.”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“we make them our friends, embracing our shared existence, they will share their secrets and show us the way.”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“back into nature’s silent message.”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“Nature is feeling. Art invokes feeling, so the more we bring art into our lives, our cities, the more we welcome nature back into our beings. Art mimics nature. So with art we bring the natural world back into our stale, mind-dominated society. If we can’t bring the masses into the wilderness—would we want to?—why not bring nature to the masses? The effect on the heart and mind is substantial, and helps tune us”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“What a relief! You see, the problem with not knowing what you want is that you want everything.”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“The Wallowas, meaning “land of winding water” to the native peoples of the Nez Percé, have been on my mind for as long as I”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“It exists for our amusement—and there is nothing wrong with it—so long as we realize that the real world is outside, with the rest of nature, and should be treated as such. When we preserve wilderness we preserve what is real, natural, and essential to our health and well”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“The ability to think only when we wish has become a rare skill. When our minds are chronically clouded with meaningless worries and trivial concerns, they’re perpetually exhausted. Then when a real problem arrives, we’re overwhelmed with indecision.”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“plants, and the Earth: a tiny speck of dust hurling through space, in a universe full of infinite galaxies. And all of this within an even larger void of all-consuming nothingness. This is reality. Not some idealistic fairytale version of the world, but the real actual truth. And it’s spellbinding. In wilderness, we see that our lives are utterly and completely meaningless. And in this we find meaning. The lesson is always the same. We”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“plants, and the Earth: a tiny speck of dust hurling through space, in a universe full of infinite galaxies. And all of this within an even larger void of all-consuming nothingness. This is reality. Not some idealistic fairytale version of the world, but the real actual truth. And it’s spellbinding. In wilderness, we see that our lives are utterly and completely meaningless. And in this we find meaning. The lesson is always the same.”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“Freedom is not political, nor some religious belief or ideological concept. It’s simply the privilege to walk, one foot in front of the other, in the direction of our choosing. Bound not by fences nor no-trespassing signs, only by our limits and desires. A freedom so pure you can taste it—existing outside our own self-imposed walls.”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“You are here on Earth to fulfill a fundamental task: to be 100 percent uniquely you. No matter what you do with your life, your perspective matters. That’s why you’re here. Your perspective, for better or worse, is something we can all learn from. You make the world a better place, in ways you cannot even imagine.”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“earth as Private Property. When we become a disease—we will be eradicated. Exterminated. Like a termite infestation. And the Earth shall go on without us, just as before, until a new species comes along. So the cycle continues.”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“Everything is as it is—without one we cannot have the other.”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“Nature will welcome us back, as she always does with open arms. We are part of her as she is of us. Her love is so deep that it overflows our hearts, spreading out into the rest of the world. But don’t take my word”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“In wilderness, we are immersed in truth. It becomes abundantly clear that our pain derives from our false sense of separation. Here, that separation is utterly and completely gone—gone like a bad dream. We’re returned to our natural order and place in the world.”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message

“No more than a bug, a rock, or a tree matters. In this vast inclusiveness, we are all equal parts. And”
― Scott Stillman, Nature's Silent Message