Catherine Opie Quotes

I see a future in which nature gives us a helping hand. Instead of destroying the natural world, why can't we use it to solve the kinds of problems that we are facing?

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

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.

If you sort of treat the environment in sort of this mechanical, industrial way that there's a disconnect between man and the environment, it's very easy to treat people that way.

It's very easy to lose track of the environment around you, to lose touch with the present.

It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to imagine it recovering its health in our presence.

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

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

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.

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

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it..

If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.

I think that, on the whole, risk-taking entrepreneurial characters regard nature as a sort of background that we can use for our own advantage.

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.