Nature Quotes

"Mimesis—the human capacity to imitate nature—has been replaced by the calculating domination of nature."

"Nature, once the site of freedom, becomes the site of total domination and management."

"Nature speaking through art is nature that has not yet been entirely dominated."

"Nature within art remains as the utopian moment that contradicts what is."

"Nature is not innocent; it is always already mediated by human social relations."

"Nature's conquest is inseparable from the conquest of human nature."

"Rhizomes are not hierarchical; they have no center and no coherence."

"Nature is composed of rhizomatic connections."

"Nature becomes merely raw material for domination once we cease to recognize our continuity with it."

"We are surrounded not by objects but by processes and events."

"Nature is not a background but an active participant in all becoming."

"The body is our general medium for having a world."

"We are not separate from the world; we are woven into it."

"A man who would plant a tree is someone to be trusted."

"The world is my body, and my body is the world."

"The flesh of the world and the flesh of my body are one."

"The invisible thread connects the observer to the observed."

"The visible world is the manifestation of our engagement with being."

"The beauty of nature speaks to us in a way that resists reduction to scientific explanation."

"Nature is indifferent to human meaning."

"Nature is always already interpreted through cultural lenses."

"The body is our general medium for having a world."

"We must recognize that the body itself is a world."

"The body is the subject of perception, not its object."

"The world reveals itself through our engagement with it."

"The body is not merely a physical thing; it is lived experience."

"We are our bodies; the split between mind and body is false."

"The body is the condition of our being-in-the-world."

"Every organism is a thousand organisms folded into one."

"The fold is the basis of all differentiation and variation."