“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
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Nature quotes
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
“Our main problem is a lack of understanding of what it means to be human and that we are not separate from nature.”
“What is needed is the intelligent management of Earth’s resources. If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems, we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world’s people.”
“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
“We are not here in this world just to exist and consume resources, we are here to understand and accept life, that life is too beautiful to waste.”
“Nature is not mute. It is man who is deaf.”
“We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one, and we are now facing the sixth mass extinction in cosmological history. If any other organism did this, a biologist would consider them a virus.”
“Money is an illusion nature is real.”
“You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.”
“People can live in carbon zero homes right now… the technology is here! The sad part is that allowing it to happen is the problem.. Our rules and regulations won’t let us do it..”
“I don’t understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.”
“Better enjoy this now, before someone comes and pollutes it, wastes it, limits access to it, sells it for 2$ a bottle and calls it ‘progress’.”
“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”
“Mother nature has the power to please, to comfort, to calm, and to nature one’s soul.”
“Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.”
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe to match your nature with Nature.”
“What I stand for is what I stand on.”