Nature Relationship Quotes

The relationship of humans to nature. We are sadly divorced from it.

Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies.

We as a culture are forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very, very deep connection and contact with nature. You can’t divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.

Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable. If we are to realize and maintain our humanity, we must come to a moral comprehension of earth and air as it is perceived in the long turn of seasons and of years.

I think our lack of intimacy with the land has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other. What we perceive as non- human, outside of us, is actually in direct relationship with us.

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

I think the only regret I have is not to have opened my eyes sooner to aspects of life like the relationship of man with nature and animals.

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.