Create Quote by Magnus Larsson

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator…

— Antoine Lavoisier

I do something to make things nature never made but which is useful to humans.

— Frances Arnold

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

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are…

— Terence McKenna

I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

— Alex Campbell

I believe we have these capabilities. It doesn't mean that we will use them. Our future is not assured here. It's not clear that…

— Edgar Mitchell

The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.

— Piet Oudolf

We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops;…

— Erwin Chargaff

You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to…

— Ralph Steadman

We could overcome the baser aspects of our nature... and give this planet the kind of caretakers it deserves.

— Jon Stewart

We don't know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices, i.e. clean…

— E. O. Wilson