Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

Nature is nobody's ally.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.

We're in a war, the war of industrial civilization against the natural world.

Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.

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

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's all very brilliant to build bridges and buildings, but long after we're gone, it will be the natural things in this world which will still be here.

Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.

The natural world is a source of inspiration.

When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement.

The voice of the natural world would be, "Could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own lives and our own ways, because we actually know much better how to do it then when you start interfering."

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.

Everybody deserves a chance to be in nature.

Our conservation laws are based on static ideas about nature—not landscapes that are rapidly changing because of something humans did.

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.

We've seen that if we do not pollute, then the environment becomes so beautiful.

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

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