Quotes about nature
276 quotes from 143 people
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Letter to Joseph Priestley, printed in Priestley’s “Observations on Different Kinds of Air”, Philosophical Transactions, vol. 62 (1772)
Alan Watts1915–1973The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966), Inside Information
Cyrano de Bergerac1619–1655The Other World (1657)There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan1911–1980Lecture “Living in an Acoustic World”, University of South Florida (1970)If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Charles Lindbergh1902–1974“Is Civilization Progress?” in Reader’s Digest (July 1964)I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
Werner Herzogborn 1942“Grizzly Man” (2006)- Charles Lindbergh1902–1974Autobiography of Values (1978)
Michael Faraday1791–1867Letter to John Tyndall (19 April 1851), The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, letter 2411
Katherine Mansfield1888–1923Entry in her journal (10 October 1922) which she tore out to send to John Middleton Murry, before changing her mind
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 36The world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.
Cormac McCarthy1933–2023Stella Maris (2022)We must change our diet. The planet can’t support billions of meat-eaters.
David Attenboroughborn 1926“Go vegetarian to save wildlife and the planet, Sir David Attenborough urges”. The Independent (26 August 2020)A harvest is made honorable when it sustains the giver as well as the taker.
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 194We have the dubious distinction of being the deadliest species in the annals of biology.
Yuval Noah Harariborn 1976Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), Chapter 4: “The Flood”
