« All Nature Quotes · Wallace Stegner's Page
Nature Quotes by Wallace Stegner
- We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part…
- It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.
- Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs over nature. Through…
- We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.
- If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned…
- Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can…
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