Neal Shusterman Quotes

No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

Everything comes from the great book of nature.

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused, and this cannot go on forever. No theory can alter that simple fact. Mother Earth will retaliate, the whole environment will retaliate, and the abusers will be eliminated.

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.

Any living thing that hopes to live on the earth must fit into the ecosphere or perish.

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the Earth as it was before people arrived on it.

I'm not a luddite. Science, computers, medicine, they're all great. But nature is context. That which we can't control. Its constant mortality and immortality is an answer to the terror of finite existence. It reassures the soul.

Over time, we as humans have developed a different attitude towards nature and we've forgotten about our inner power.

With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without the renovation of the earth in the production of another.

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.

You should really know what the complete natural world of your region is and know what all its interactions are and how you are interacting with it yourself. This is just part of the work of becoming who you are, where you are.

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.

We see how capitalism is destroying Mother Earth. I remain convinced that the Earth can exist without man but man cannot live without the Earth.

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life.

Isn't that weird, we've made nature against the law. That's how un-natural we've become.

Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not.