Bags Quote by Tom Robbins

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

— Epicurus

Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.

— Jacob Bronowski

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

— Ezra Pound

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

— Henry David Thoreau

Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.

— Thomas More

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

— Charles Kingsley

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

— Mason Cooley

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

— Jean Kerr

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

— Aldo Leopold

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

— Susan Sontag

Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.

— Aldo Leopold

What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions…

— Pablo Picasso