Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
English translation: Constance Garnett
Nature
Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
English translation: Constance Garnett
The Brothers Karamazov, Book VI, Chapter III, “Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima”.
English translation by Constance Garnett. Historical translation reproduced in the linked source.
From the teachings attributed to the fictional Father Zossima.