Aspect Quote by Henry Beston

That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights.

— Fran Lebowitz

Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set…

— Camille Flammarion

The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And Nature must obey necessity.

— William Shakespeare

“Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. Primitive folk, gathered…

— Henry Beston

When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it…

— W. G. Sebald

The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

— Albert Schweitzer

Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.

— Georgia Harkness

Night is falling. The gods have left us for those who please them better. Our time in the world is passed, and we are…

— Jim Grimsley

The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each…

— John O'Donohue

“Our disenchantment of the night through artificial lighting may appear, if it is noticed at all, as a regrettable but eventually trivial side effect…

— Robert Macfarlane

Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.

— Henry David Thoreau