Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I love nature.

TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

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

We're getting closer to our nature.

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

Land really is the best art.

Commerce is the weapon …., the all powerful arm with which we have entered in earnest, with every prospect of success, upon our conquest of Mexico.

The laws of trade must be the great teacher.

Our object is wholly new in the world. It is singular: it is grown up to this magnitude and importance within the memory of man; nothing in history is parallel to it… In this new system, a principle of commerce, of artificial commerce, must prevail.

I'm a firm believer in the circle of commerce.

The natural world is a source of inspiration.

We've seen that if we do not pollute, then the environment becomes so beautiful.

I love nature, and I love information.

We live in a world in which there are many live things other than human beings, and many of these things can seem beautiful and amusing and interesting to us if they can catch our attention and if we can step back from our crabbed and limiting and lonely anthropocentricity to consider them.