Nature Quotes

"Nature provides the raw materials; culture provides the meaning."

"What we call natural is often profoundly cultural."

"What we call natural is the result of countless generations of social labor."

"Nature is a network of communications, not a collection of things."

"The world is made of circles, not lines."

"The organism and its environment are not separable."

"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns."

"The dance between order and chaos creates life."

"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."

"It took millions of years to produce the life that now inhabits the world, and use that same product to destroy itself."

"We are the only species that has become so alienated from our nature."

"Human nature is malleable, shaped by culture into infinite forms."

"Nature is indifferent to human morality."

"Nature obeys immutable laws."

"Culture grows like an organism, with periods of rapid change and stasis."

"Nature does not proceed by leaps; it changes gradually in response to circumstance."

"Break the pattern which connects all living things, and you break life itself."

"The greatest paradox of ecology is that you cannot do one thing."

"Everything is connected to everything else through patterns of relationship."

"The natural world teaches us through observation, not instruction."

"In nature, there is no waste, only transformation of pattern."

"Nature provides the stage, but culture writes the script of human existence."

"The moon's an arrant thief and her pale fire she snatches from the sun."

"Nature is the greatest teacher; we need only to learn to listen."

"Society is a system of interdependent parts working toward social integration."

"Nature is not our master but our teacher."

"Nature reveals the face of the Creator."

"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."

"Human nature expresses itself differently across time and place."

"In the diversity of human cultures lies the diversity of human nature."