Nature Quotes by Werner Herzog

11 Nature quotes by Werner Herzog

Herzog’s filmic eye translates into words that capture both the grandeur and the uncanny of the wilderness. In these eleven passages, his distinctive voice invites you to confront the raw, sometimes unsettling, beauty of the planet.

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The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

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Nature is monumentally indifferent.

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I love nature, but against my better judgment.

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You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.

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It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.

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I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.

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I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio…

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Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technological civilisation makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all…

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There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems -…

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I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb…

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For a film I shot on the most difficult mountain on God's wide earth in Patagonia for a sequence where there was…

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