Stephen Harrod Buhner Quotes

The world is far more alive than we have been taught.

The most important thing is not what we know, but what we are willing to feel.

Plants are intelligent. They communicate, they remember, they choose. The fact that we have not been taught this does not make it less true.

The Earth is a living being, and we are inside her body.

When we open the doors of perception, the world is rich beyond imagining.

Healing begins when we remember that we are part of something larger than ourselves.

The heart has its own intelligence, and it speaks in a language older than thought.

To pay attention is the deepest form of devotion.

Every plant has a story to tell. The work is learning how to listen.

The wild world is talking to us all the time. Most of us have forgotten how to listen.

Beauty is a doorway. It is the language the living world uses to speak to us.

When we walk in the woods, the woods are walking through us.

Reductionism is a useful tool. It is a terrible worldview.

The world is alive and aware of itself, and we are part of how it knows itself.

Sacred is not somewhere else. Sacred is what is in front of you, if you can see.

The body is wiser than the mind. Trust what it tells you, even when you cannot explain it.

Plants have been the great teachers of the human species. They taught us how to think, how to feel, how to dream.

There is a deep intelligence in the natural world that we have only begun to understand.

Imagination is not a luxury. It is how we touch what is real.

The Earth dreams us as much as we dream the Earth.

The medicine of the wild is the medicine of remembering who you are.

Words are spells. They shape the world we live in.

When you stop trying to control nature, you discover that nature has been holding you all along.

What is real is not what can be measured. What is real is what can be felt.

The wild is not somewhere out there. The wild is inside you, waiting to be remembered.

Healing is not a return to what was. It is a movement toward what is becoming.

The deepest knowledge does not come from study. It comes from being still long enough to hear.

Every place on Earth has a soul. Every river, every mountain, every grove. We are not alone here.

To love the Earth is to be loved by it. The relationship goes both ways.

We do not own the land. We belong to it.