John Dewey Quotes

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us.

It is funny how we talk about nature as this separate entity when we are nature, and nature is us.

We often forget that we are nature.

We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.

The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

We have an impact on nature, and nature has an impact on us.

Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences.

A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.'

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

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

In the final analysis we all inhabit the same planet, we all breath the same air, we all cherish our children’s future, and we are all mortal.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.

I can't be separated from nature. I am one of her faces.

Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.