Cultivating Quote by Horace Mann

For though we may be the Earth's gardeners, we are also its weeds. And we won't get anywhere until we come to terms with…

— Michael Pollan

This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three billion years…

— Julian Huxley

Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has…

— Wendell Berry

Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may…

— Walter Gropius

Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep…

— Rene Dubos

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

That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.

— Philippe de Commines

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

— James Allen

The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties…

— Isaac Barrow

In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . .

— Edward Gibbon