Quotes About Nature

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits.

The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.

It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.

I personally feel that people feel very reassured by nature because it makes us feel small and that's a good thing for human beings and for society.

Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge.

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.

Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns.

I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.

There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.

Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.

We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion on us.

A societal revolution is politically organic in nature. It can't be engineered. It has to be evolved.

Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.

Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.