David James Duncan Quotes

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

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.

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.

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.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

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

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

Our health depends on the health of the environment in which we live.

Nature nurtures our souls and lifts our spirits. But it also sustains us and our economy - and it is for this reason that we take it for granted at our peril.

All I want to do is to present the abundance of life on Earth.

Nature is so phenomenal.

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.

One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

I believe in the protection of the environment that supports us all.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

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

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

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.