E. F. Schumacher Quotes

We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all, with those Higher Powers which have made nature and have made us; for, assuredly, we have not come about by accident and certainly have not made ourselves

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.

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

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

Experience shows that disregard for the environment always harms human coexistence, and vice versa. It becomes more and more evident that there is an inseparable link between peace with creation and peace among men.

I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.

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

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

As long as we are graceful, appreciative lodgers, the earth remains healthy and wondrous.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.

Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance.

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.

The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you will ruin it. If you try to own it you will lose it

This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man, to enjoy.

Never again will we have this good a chance as we now have to find an enduring place for ourselves within the natural systems that keep us alive. It's a sweet spot in history. That's why this is such a critical time.

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.

It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.