There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who “love Nature” while deploring the “artificialities” with which “Man has spoiled ‘Nature.'” The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of “Nature” – but beavers and their dams are. But the contradictions go deeper […]
Nature Quotes
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
Man is demolishing nature… We are killing things that keep us alive.
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.
