Ruth Bernhard Quotes

Any living thing that hopes to live on the earth must fit into the ecosphere or perish.

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 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.

One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the Earth as it was before people arrived on it.

We are all part of the ecosystem.

In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.

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.

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.

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

The diversity of life is so stimulating for me.

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

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

We are dependent not so much on Earth, the third planet orbiting the sun, as on Gaea, the integrated system that includes, sustains and is shaped by life.

Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences.

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

The environment is everything that isn't me.

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

I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.

Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring.

The natural world is a source of inspiration.

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

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?

It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms so different from each other and dependent on each other and so complex a manner have all been produced by laws acting around us.

I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.