Nature Quotes by Roger Scruton

9 Nature quotes by Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton treats the natural world as a stage for aesthetic and moral reflection. This compact collection of nine thoughts offers a taste of his measured, contemplative style without overwhelming the reader.

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Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world

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If, as many people believe, there is a God, and that God made us in his own image, then of course we…

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I think that, on the whole, risk-taking entrepreneurial characters regard nature as a sort of background that we can use for our…

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“Observing the volatile nature of the new democracies, I came vividly to see how unimportant a part of democracy are elections, in…

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“law of nature that our scientific thinking tends toward the truth, our morality toward the good, and maybe (though he doesn’t go…

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Look at what left-wing movements were like in the 19th century - they were all about progress, the engineering of the world,…

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State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure.…

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“Enemies can be confronted only if they are first brought to earth. And that means bringing them to earth somewhere, as the…

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If you say something in advance - if you describe a problem as it arises, people always turn on you because they…

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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

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“So conceived, the English police force served to emphasize a fundamental truth about the English law, which is that it exists not to control…

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I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

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Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it.…

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The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

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“I think we can all see the force of the idea that there are certain things that cannot be done to human beings –…

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When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

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“Western democracies did not create the virtue of citizenship; on the contrary, they grew from it. Nothing is more evident in The Federalist than…

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“If one looks back to the French Revolution, one sees just how easy it is for the doctrine of “human rights” to become an…

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“I say it was immediately apparent, but it was not apparent to the intellectual class, which has remained largely wedded to the post-war consensus…

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Conservatives hold on to things not only because they are attached to them, but also because they do not see the sense in radical…

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“Academic philosophers in the English speaking world still regard philosophy as Locke defined it in the 17th century, as “the handmaiden of the sciences”:…

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Delia Smith is, actually, my bete noire. I consider her a most pernicious influence.

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Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

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