Seneca the Younger Quotes

It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander.

Since we are part of nature...we empathize deeply with its ways... they serve as models of how things should be.

Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.

In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of nature.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

It's nice to think about having everything natural and similar to pre-Columbian times.... In fact, man himself has long been part of that environment and there is no way to separate him from that environment.

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.

A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again.

It is the fate of modern life that we repeatedly lose touch with nature, the environment, the planet. But we try to regain it again and again. It's like a circle. In children's hearts and souls when they're born into the world, nature already exists deep inside them. So what I want to do in my work is tap into their souls

Nature is where I feel most comfortable; it's where I find my balance. I would like my kids and all future generations to have the chance to experience nature as I did.

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.

The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

The healing of our relationship with place begins with the preservation of the natural environment. We cannot go to the wild for renewal if no wilderness is left.

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without cities we cannot be civilized. Without nature, without wilderness even, we are compelled to renounce an important part of our heritage.

To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.