And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

             —William Shakespeare

You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

                              —Hal Borland

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.               —Marshall McLuhan

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

                                  —John Muir

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. —E.B. White

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

                                      —Juvenal

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, / There is a rapture on the lonely shore, / There is society, where none intrudes, / By the deep sea, and music in its roar: / I love not man the less, but Nature more. —Lord Byron

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

                            —Chief Seattle

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

The “control of nature” is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.            —Rachel Carson

 

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

             —William Ruckelshaus

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun’s energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.                  

                     —Sir George Porter

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.                —Jacques Barzun

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

                           —Francis Bacon

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.            

                    —Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man’s heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.      

—Chief Luther Standing Bear

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

               —Richard P. Feynman