Quotes About Nature

Enjoy, smile... wild... peace.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert--that is the path society must follow.

Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to resist the first approaches of tyranny.

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society.

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

Ich wünschte, ich könnte so leben, Johanna, die Kinder einfach aufwachsen lassen, dreckig, frei und gleich mit welchen Noten, außer Atem von der Sonne, müde von der Luft.

she called, 'Mother, come out, someone's here, he brought the rain.

The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural.

Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?

But society is always most cruel to those who betray its secretes, showing where it's dishonesty commits a crime against nature.

Desire and love act at cross purposes. love is a net cast on eternity, desire is a stratagem to be spared the chores of net weaving. True to their nature, love would strive to perpetuate the desire. Desire, on the other hand, would shun love's shackles.

For I showed men how they were the cause of their own unhappiness and, in consequence, how they might avoid it', writes Rousseau to Voltaire in his famous letter on the Lisbon disaster, laying the foundations of a new spirit that desacralizes nature, removing it from divine will and entrusting it to the hands of man.