Civilization Quote by James Balog Download Open image “You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.” — James Balog ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Depends Divorce Inspirational Love Nature Organisms
We as a culture are forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very, very deep connection and contact with… — James Balog Copy Share Image
Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When… — James Balog Copy Share Image
Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by… — James Balog Copy Share Image
I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception. — James Balog Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we have to ask ourselves an essential spiritual and ethical question: Are we the kind of people who take everything for ourselves and… — James Balog Copy Share Image
You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times. — James Balog Copy Share Image
Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted. — James Balog Copy Share Image
It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things. — James Balog Copy Share Image
The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a photographic culture… — James Balog Copy Share Image
I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees taught me… — James Balog Copy Share Image
When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees,… — James Balog Copy Share Image
I've got at least two major project ideas that I've been chewing on for several years in my head and I've been trying to… — James Balog Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
