Man is demolishing nature… We are killing things that keep us alive.
Nature Quotes
The positive ideal that is proposed is Nature. That is, wild nature: those aspects of the functioning of the Earth and its living things that are independent of human management and free of human interference and control.
Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.
Two roads diverged in a woods, – and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
You can’t just let nature run wild. (former governor of Alaska)
It is not necessary for the sake of nature to set up some chimerical utopia or any new kind of social order. Nature takes care of itself: It was a spontaneous creation that existed long before any human society, and for countless centuries, many different kinds of human societies coexisted with nature without doing it […]
In nature nothing can be given, all things are sold.
How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton’s head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.
The most important discoveries of the laws, methods and progress of Nature have nearly always sprung from the examination of the smallest objects which she contains.