Nature Quote by Tor Norretranders

“It ain't technology that enhances the civilization.. but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints.”

— Toba Beta

“The world of the senses is just a base camp: we are meant to be as much at home in consciousness as in the…

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

“Each of us possesses five fundamental, enthralling maps to the natural world: sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell. As we unravel the threads that bind…

— Ellen Meloy

“The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Nature awakens your senses and paying attention to sensory details inspires imagination.”

— Mary Schramski

“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our…

— Antonio R. Damasio

“As Zapffe concluded, we need to hamper our consciousness for all we are worth or it will impose upon us a too clear vision…

— Thomas Ligotti

“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....”

— Sigmund Freud

“I can discover nothing in any mere animal but an ingenious machine, to which nature has given senses to wind itself up, and guard,…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Science is insulating man from life - separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetises his senses…

— Charles Lindbergh

“We know more from nature than we can at will communicate. Its light flows into the mind evermore, and we forget its presence.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed…

— Andre Malraux