I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.
—Will Durst
There is not one world for man and one for animals; they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.
—Rigoberta Menchú
There are mystical, unbreakable bonds between all members of the natural world including humans and animals. Whether or not we remember or acknowledge this relatedness, it still exists.
—Elizabeth S. Eiler
The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.
—Tom Robbins
Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the silence of animals. Animals move through the world like a caravan of silence. A whole world, that of nature and that of animals, is filled with silence. Nature and animals seem like protuberances of silence. The silence of animals and the silence of nature would not be so great and noble if it were merely a failure of language to materialize. Silence has been entrusted to the animals and to nature as something created for its own sake.
—Max Picard
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
—Tennessee Williams
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
—Ingrid Bergman
Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again
—Mike Myers
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it.… Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
—Camille Paglia
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
—Samuel Butler
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
—Hippocrates
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
—William Blake
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
—John Muir
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments—there are consequences.
—R. D. Ingersoll