Nature Quote by Robert Smithson Download Open image “Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.” — Robert Smithson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nature Parks
Civilization in our time is driven by materialism and troubled by pollution, over-population, corruption, and violence. National parks can hardly be uncoupled from the… — Michael Frome Copy Share Image
One must distance oneself from the idea of strict realism. It seems to me that real nature doesn't exist anymore, this idea of "the… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
“Contemporary attitudes toward urban parks fall into three levels of sophistication. The first, the most naive assumption, is that parks are just plots of… — Galen Cranz Copy Share Image
“Some folks require the park’s wildness and yet deny its right to exercise its wildness upon them.” — Lee H. Whittlesey Copy Share Image
The National Parks are overlooked and underrated, and they shouldn't be. — Hallie Jackson Copy Share Image
It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there still are a number of these wild places, but it will require effort to save them. Each Park proposed will have powerful and insidious opposition. The insidious opposition to National Parks will say, ‘There is a feeling in… — Enos Mills Copy Share
I don't know of a single park without serious environmental problems. — Michael Frome Copy Share Image
A national park is not a playground. It's a sanctuary for nature and for humans who will accept nature on nature's own terms. — Michael Frome Copy Share Image
The national parks belong to everyone. To the people. To all of us. The government keeps saying so and maybe, in this one case… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
National parks are cathedrals of spirituality and emotion, and unfortunately, they are being loved to death by many of the same people who enjoy… — Michael Frome Copy Share Image
“If the park can be reduced to a single cultural indicator, it is that of optimism. Contained within the evolution of the park idea… — Karen R. Jones & John Wills Copy Share Image
A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
“It’s like the end of the day where you feel nothing has been achieved and you’re in a hurry to get the day over… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
“Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. The power of a word lies in the very inadequacy of the context it is placed, in… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art . — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature was so… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“When the water covers the earth the sun will vanish the darkess and the cold will come.When the last dragon and the last Elf… — Silvana de Mari Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
