Apples Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

— Jane Jacobs

Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be…

— Horace

What I love most about nature is how indifferent it is to us humans and human suffering. While we are here with our little…

— Valzhyna Mort

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might…

— Richard Dawkins

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

— Temple Grandin

There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that we Americans,…

— Jane Jacobs

Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view;…

— George Santayana

“Our sensitivity to nature, and our humility within it, are essential to our physical and spiritual survival. Yet, our growing disconnection from nature dulls…

— Richard Louv

How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!

— Henry David Thoreau

I look at it this way... For centuries now, man has done everything he can to destroy, defile, and interfere with nature: clear-cutting forests,…

— George Carlin

Through the power which we win over the forces of nature we get also a gruesome kind of power over our fellow human beings.…

— Albert Schweitzer

“We find ourselves in a world of transporting pleasures, ravishing beauties, and tantalising possibilities, but all constantly being destroyed, all coming to nothing. Nature…

— C.S. Lewis