Contact Quote by Saint Augustine

“The human spirit needs places where nature has not been re-arranged by the hand of man.”

— Anonymous

I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are taking over…

— Michael Kenna

“Nature is so beautiful and so full of elegance that it is beyond words! But because man has focused its beauty to one place,…

— Dada Bhagwan

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming,…

— Richard Le Gallienne

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes to natural…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears…

— C. S. Lewis

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.

— Vladimir Lenin

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent…

— Luther Burbank

True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the sensation of…

— Russell Kirk

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like…

— John Muir