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Nature Quotes by Edward Abbey
- May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
- Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
- Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
- For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to…
- The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
- There are no vacant lots in nature.
- Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
- Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.
- Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.
- You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.
- If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.
- I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central…
- Nature, like Miamonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.
- In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.
- The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
- Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
- We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom,…
- A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
- The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert…
- It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.
- The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth,…
- "If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as…
- All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle