Laura Esquivel Quotes

Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

Simply to pit "society" against "nature," "humanity" against the "biosphere," and "reason," "technology," and "science" against less developed, often primitive forms of human interaction with the natural world, prevents us from examining the highly complex differences and divisions within society so necessary to define our problems and their solutions.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

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

We have changed our environment more quickly than we have learned how to change ourselves.

The planet is a vast and beautiful place, full of exciting and wonderful people.

Culture means control over nature.

Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we, know how to honor and properly use the second Bible, when it was written.

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

I'm no online whiz, but I'm not a Luddite, either. I love that we have these laptops and tablets and smart phones; they're awesome and convenient and all that. It's more about maintaining balance. Technology should always be a predicate of the true subject: our individual humanity, our examined lives.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

The machines, which mark the triumph of science, become, by reason of the antithetic conditions of the social plexus, instruments which impoverish millions and millions of artisans and free peasants.

The masses in highly industrialized countries like England, the United States, or France are largely de-Christianized. Technology, and the way of life it produces, undermines Christianity far more effectively than do violent measures.

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

We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher.

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

I love old industrial imagery and smokestacks belching pollution, maybe because Iceland doesn't have any industry, just mountains and beautiful nature.