Nature And Man Quotes

“In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illness. This disorder can be detected in individuals, families, and communities.”
― Richard Louv , Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“Searching for Love in Everything

We are so much like these rocks
I think to myself
One morning
While passing a sea of black, gray, and white

Pebbles
All different shapes, sizes, colors

They drift past one another
On land or in oceans

All while we collide, we crash
Gracefully or without
the intention of even
finding one another

Is it messy or beautiful?
Our choice or fate?

We all have a home
We all have a story

And perhaps
we are found
In the waves that rush

Where
over time
we lose our sharp edges
And the water
All-knowing
Smooths us out
Reminding us to be
gentle with ourselves

Perhaps the boulders basking in the light
On land carry similar knowledge
And, like us
Maybe they love watching the clouds in the day
And even more
the stars at night

Maybe all of life ponders the change
the earth makes as we constantly
gain and lose sight

As we try to follow a path
to love this life

There must be love to go around
In all places
In all things

Isn’t all of it a greater message
for the love present in this world?

They were here before us
And will remain long after

Perhaps one day
Long after

Love will exist
For and within
Everything”
― Alice Tyszka, Loving this Life

“The logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of "true" nature--the certainty that it's not even worth looking at. (62)”
― Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“Nature must remind itself of city people otherwise the city people continue to drown in their virtual life, unaware of nature!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“As long as you do not break with nature, you will not break with yourself!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Talvez seja a Terra esfregando na nossa cara, mais uma vez, que a natureza é mais forte do que o ser humano.”
― Jirō Taniguchi, As Crônicas da Era do Gelo, Volume 1