. . . it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.
Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that.
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.
All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world is our family.
It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.
"I want to be a lawn. " Greta Garbo.
When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.
True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.
Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.
Nature made us. . . nature did it all. . . not the gods of the religions.
Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.
Nature turns all malfaisance to good.
Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness.