To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

As in everything, nature is the best instructor.

A teacher cannot give you the truth
The truth is already in you
You only need to open yourself –
body, mind and heart-
so that his or her teachings
will penetrate your own seeds
of understanding and enlightenment
If you let the words enter you,
the soil and the seeds
will do the rest of the work

Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

The mirror is our teacher.

There is incredible symmetry in a tree, between its inner life and its outer life,between its rooted memory and its external active presence. A tree grows up and down at once and produces enough branches too incarnate it’s wild divinity. It doesn’t limit itself- it reaches for the sky and it reaches for the source, all in one kind of seamless movement. So I think landscape is an incredible, mystical teacher, and when you begin to tune into its sacred presence, something shifts inside you.

Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people are in a position to understand what is being lost. The future of the planet concerns all of us, and all of us should do what we can to protect it. As I told the foresters, and the women, you don't need a diploma to plant a tree.

The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.

Necessity is a great teacher.

The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”
(Analects 2.11)

Death is the only teacher in evolution

Land really is the best art.

Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax. It’s such a huge help in working with our crazy mixed-up minds to remember that what we’re doing is unlocking a softness that is in us and letting it spread. We’re letting it blur the sharp corners of self-criticism and complaint.