Communication Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Human language, for us moderns, has swung in on itself, turning its back on the beings around us. Language is a human property, suitable…

— David Abram

“All things have the capacity for speech -- all beings have the ability to communicate something of themselves to other beings. Indeed, what is…

— David Abram

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of…

— Malidoma Patrice Some

A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even more valuable:…

— Robert Macfarlane

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

— Julia Penelope

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

— Hans Christian Andersen

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.

— Confucius

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

— Confucius

“Unfortunately, the vocabulary, which was previously so rich in describing the nuances of nature, has severely diminished over the past decades. As the words…

— Morten A. Strøksnes

Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.

— Mary Butts

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user…

— Eva Figes

Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.

— Hal Borland