Nature Balance Quotes

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

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

Aang was an airbending prodigy, but didn't even discover he could bend the other three elements on his own; whereas Korra was bending three of the elements at age four.

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.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

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

All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.

We simulated the predator with livestock and the perennial grassland returned. Just put the whole back, and there it was. You'll find the scientific method never discovers anything. Observant, creative people make discoveries. But the scientific method protects us from cranks like me.

I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports.

The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.

The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.

All creatures must learn to coexist. That's why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Of course, they can't mate or the mice would explode.

Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills... Being in tune with the universe is the entire secrets.

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

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of the regeneration of individuality, liberty, community, and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another, and with the divine intelligence such as the world has never dreamed.

Humans have occupied a position in nature that they should not. It is impossible for humans to conquer nature.

Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions in our country are, I have no doubt, the consequences of mankind's arrogant disregard of the delicate balance of nature. We have to find a way of ensuring that our remarkable and seemingly beneficial advances in technology do not just become the agents of our own destruction.

Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.

This Forest eats itself and lives forever.

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.