More quotations tagged with “nature”
Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
That’s the problem with nature. Something’s always stinging you or oozing mucus on you. Let’s go watch TV.
—Bill Watterson
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
—P.D. James
When I turn away from nature—human, animal, earthly or cosmic—when I turn away, that is, from intimate livingness, it means, simply and always, that I am afraid.
—Sanfor Goodman
It has always been part of basic human experience to live in a culture of wilderness. There has been no wilderness without some kind of human presence for several hundred thousand years. Nature is not a place to visit, it is home.
—Gary Snyder