Robert Smithson Quotes

Nature has a way of giving back. And we can never go against it.

Maybe it's because I look into the future professionally, but I see great possibilities for both humanity and our planet. I don't believe the thriving of one has to come at the expense of the other, and I'm deeply concerned to find out whether other people do think that.

We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.

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

In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.

You can grow without destroying the things that you love.

Nature is perfect.

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

We're getting closer to our nature.

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.

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

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.

Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning.

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a hippie. But trees are really inspiring to me. They're like the masters of the earth.

The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the problem of conservation education.

I do not like to see anything destroyed; any void produced in society; any ruin on the face of the land.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.