Fritjof Capra Quotes

We're getting closer to our nature.

We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute to make it what it is. I see the beauty in all expressions of life, and I see how blind so many of us still are. Our planet is remarkably abundant and there's more than enough for us all.It is greed and shortsightedness that create the illusion of scarcity.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn't based on fairy tales. It's based on observable facts in the human and in the biological history of the planet. I think that can be a source for comfort.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a hippie. But trees are really inspiring to me. They're like the masters of the earth.

Ecology has become the political substitute for the word "motherhood.

Ecological policy rejects exploitative forms of economy and the unscrupulous plundering of natural resources and raw materials, as well as the destructive interventions into nature's ability to renew itself. We believe that the exploitation of nature as well as human beings must be stopped if we are to master this acute threat to life on earth.