Ability Quote by Edward Burtynsky

We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy…

— Laurence J. Peter

Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.

— George Gissing

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

— Aldous Huxley

Whatever nature gives us, we explore & we build on.

— Laurence Graff

Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and…

— Abraham Maslow

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors,…

— Sitting Bull

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand…

— Anonymous

Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its…

— Henry Beston

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.

— Theodor Adorno

We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.

— Yvon Chouinard

As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control.

— James Arthur