Alice Hoffman Quotes

Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.

One thing you cannot control is nature.

There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there any more, it does something to the heart. It makes you realise it's possible for a gigantic natural element to just disappear.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.

The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we're not even aware of. Every time a mountain is beheaded, we chop off a little part of our souls.

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.

Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.

There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

Every time we share something rather than own it ourselves, we reduce the stress on the planet. That could make the critical difference as the global population continues to grow.

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

Blizzards, floods, volcanoes, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us

I think the global mass culture is either consciously or unconsciously sensitized to how vulnerable we are here on the planet.

Nature is the purest thing we can touch and observe. It can be the most beautiful and also the most devastating.