Nature Quotes

"Nature is no longer a refuge from society; it has been invaded by the exchange principle everywhere."

"Nature is the greatest teacher of wisdom."

"The natural world reminds us of our smallness and insignificance."

"Humanity's relation to nature is mediated through its relation to labor."

"Instrumental rationality has conquered nature only by first conquering human nature."

"Nature is dominated not to meet human needs but to accumulate profit."

"Nature is not conquered but rather destroyed in the pursuit of domination."

"Nature speaks only when we cease to instrumentalize it."

"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of nature, but he has merely succeeded in becoming a slave to it."

"The Lockean proviso limits appropriation of natural resources."

"Nature is rational; rationality is natural."

"The sublime in nature awakens the spirit."

"Nature never wears the same expression twice."

"Nature is not to be tested by the test-tube method."

"Nature itself must be the judge."

"Nature, once an escape from society, has been absorbed into the culture industry's grasp."

"The world is not humane just because it is created by human beings."

"Nature is inferior to spirit because it lacks the self-consciousness of being."

"Nature reminds us that beauty and suffering coexist."

"The starry heavens fill me with wonder; the moral law fills me with awe."

"Nature gives man nothing that he can accomplish by his own power."

"Nature operates according to laws, both physical and moral."

"Nature abhors a vacuum."

"In nature there is no good or evil."

"Nature is not limited to the operations of mind or body alone."

"God is not a being outside nature, but nature itself."

"To live according to nature is to live according to reason."

"The nature of humanity is to be historical"

"Nature never wears one shape, and yet is always the same."

"The right to all things is given to everyone by nature."