Association Quote by Bertolt Brecht

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory…

— Charles Dudley Warner

“Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused, separate, and…

— John Muir

Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the…

— Marquis de Sade

An object imbued with intent — it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent — it's random, it's…

— John Hockenberry

“1. An honest ego in a healthy body 2. An eye to see nature 3. A heart to feel nature 4. Courage to follow…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.

— Mahavira

“We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains, stupefies, like…

— Guy de Maupassant

“Of all conceivable things that which is most alien to their spirit is to sacrifice any distinct interest or particular right to the requirements…

— Lord Acton

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

— Albert Einstein

“So long as our untried senses and our naïve heart recognize themselves and delight in the universe of qualifications, they flourish with the aid…

— Emil Cioran

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

— Jane Jacobs