Ma Yansong Quotes

We need a philosophy for humans and nature to live together.

Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet we should not attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together into a higher unity.

Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

The organization and the environment are in concert.

It is not oil or the environment, it is oil and the environment. We are living in the same world. We are not enemies.

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

It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.

I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.

I think the nomads really give us inspiration about how we can live in harmony with our environment.

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

You want to live in harmony with nature and with each other.

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.

When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own consciousness now...recognizi ng that by violating the environment in which we are living, we are really cutting off the energy and source of our own living. And it’s this sense of accord, so that living properly in relation to what has to be done in this world one fosters the vitality of the environment.

Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. When the earth, its products, its creatures, become his concern, man is caught up in a cause greater than his own life and more meaningful. Only when man loses himself in an endeavor of that magnitude does he walk and live with humanity and reverence.

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure we have an environment that not only is good for us but is good for all living organisms.

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

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

The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price.

Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.

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

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.