Nature Quotes

"The dog does not bark at the world; it creates a territory through barking."

"The boundary between nature and culture dissolves under scrutiny."

"Nature is indifferent to human meaning and value; we impose order on its chaos."

"Nature offers lessons only to those willing to see themselves as part of nature, not apart from it."

"We are our bodies as much as we are our minds; the body is the subject of experience."

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

"Nature is not something that can be conquered."

"Nature teaches us what we need to know if we listen."

"Nature reveals no moral lessons to those who study it."

"Nature is indifferent to human concerns and moral categories."

"We are not looking at the world through glass - we are part of it."

"The visual field is not a picture - it is part of the world."

"Language does not describe the world - it participates in it."

"Nature teaches us that complexity arises from simple rules, endlessly applied."

"The man-made and the natural are not really distinct categories—everything is ultimately natural."

"Man acts as master of the earth, yet remains its servant."

"Landscape is fatherland."

"Mortals dwell by saving the earth."

"Every organism tends toward survival and adaptation."

"Nature shows itself in the work of art."

"Human nature cannot be separated from the nature of being."

"The world worlds, and is never something merely present."

"The fourfold gathers earth, sky, mortals, and divinities together."

"Nature is not too good to be true; it is the world of truth."

"In nature we find not prophecies of our destiny but problems to be solved."

"Whatever grows is in part the product of chance."

"Mortals dwell on the earth by saving it, by realizing it as the earth."

"To dwell means to cherish and preserve the earth and all that grows upon it."

"The roots of a plant reveal where it truly dwells and draws its nourishment."

"Dwelling poetically on the earth means to preserve it for future generations."