Top 60 Civilization And Nature Quotes

#1. The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a manifesto of man's determination to use the resources of nature to refresh mind and body and enjoy to the full the senses with which he has been endowed.

David Daiches

Civilization And Nature Quotes #34707
#2. The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.

Henry David Thoreau

Civilization And Nature Quotes #91742
#3. If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature's larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.

Terence McKenna

Civilization And Nature Quotes #95776
#4. Where the human need for order meets
the human tendency to mayhem, where civilization runs smack against its discontents, you find friction, and a great deal of general wear and tear.

Ian McEwan

Civilization And Nature Quotes #155212
#5. All praise of Civilization, or Art, or Contrivance, is so much dispraise of Nature ; an admission of imperfection, which it is man's business, and merit, to be always endeavouring to correct or mitigate.

John Stuart Mill

Civilization And Nature Quotes #187918
#6. I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the entire constellation of life's factors: culture, civilization, tradition, history, ideals, facts, physical conditions, one's mental state, the ecology, and so on.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Civilization And Nature Quotes #211829
#7. The child of civilization, remote from birth from wild nature and all her ways, is more susceptible to her grandeur than is her untutored son who has looked at her and lived close to her from childhood up, on terms of prosaic familiarity. The

Thomas Mann

Civilization And Nature Quotes #218711
#8. The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization.

Julian Barnes

Civilization And Nature Quotes #255104
#9. I think ... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

Tom Stoppard

Civilization And Nature Quotes #264259
#10. People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

Yasunari Kawabata

Civilization And Nature Quotes #264975
#11. Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?

William Henry Harrison

Civilization And Nature Quotes #321794
#12. And if this disenchanted vision were elevated to the status of being the only legitimate vision of the nature of the cosmos upheld by an entire civilization, what an incalculable loss, an impoverishment, a tragic deformation, a grief, would ultimately be suffered by both knower and known.

Richard Tarnas

Civilization And Nature Quotes #358509
#13. The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn ... tired of common sense and civilization.

F.L. Lucas

Civilization And Nature Quotes #412338
#14. That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art of an organized polity; in which, and by which, man may develop a worthy civilization

Thomas Huxley

Civilization And Nature Quotes #426863
#15. They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.

Camille Paglia

Civilization And Nature Quotes #562431
#16. In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese.

Bette Lord

Civilization And Nature Quotes #597788
#17. Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. Entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams, is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again.

Carl Jung

Civilization And Nature Quotes #604587
#18. Oh for women at sea to obviate the eternal crosscat-harpings,' he said to himself, 'to do away with the grumlinfuttocks, and to inject a little civilization, even of an equivocal nature, even at the risk of moral deviation.

Patrick O'Brian

Civilization And Nature Quotes #649053
#19. If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Civilization And Nature Quotes #698556
#20. We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.

Laurence Gonzales

Civilization And Nature Quotes #700187
#21. On re-entering cultivated lands, the agitation, perplexity, and turmoil of civilization oppressed and suffocated us; the air seemed to fail us, and we felt every moment as if about to die of asphyxia.

Evariste Regis Huc

Civilization And Nature Quotes #705389
#22. The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

Henry James

Civilization And Nature Quotes #770080
#23. Civilization is about removing information about our surroundings; discarding information about nature so our senses are not burdened with all that information and our consciousness can concentrate on other matters.

Tor Norretranders

Civilization And Nature Quotes #827999
#24. unless an evil thought is born in a twisted mind, human nature is repelled by crime. However, civilization has given us needs, vices and artificial appetites which sometimes cause us to repress our good instincts and lead us to wrongdoing.

Alexandre Dumas

Civilization And Nature Quotes #843038
#25. That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.

Henry George

Civilization And Nature Quotes #922987
#26. A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader.

Jason Epstein

Civilization And Nature Quotes #973946
#27. When individuals are established in universal consciousness, they live the scientific reality of the unity of life spontaneously in accord with all the laws of nature. This experience alone will transform our collective reality - our human civilization to one of unity, peace, and harmony.

John Hagelin

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1028257
#28. We face the gravest threat that civilization has ever confronted. It's global in nature and requires a global solution. Increased CO2 emissions anywhere, whether from China or the United States or from one of the countries that is burning its forests like Brazil or Indonesia.

Al Gore

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1056561
#29. The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.

Henry David Thoreau

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1068061
#30. The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.

Lin Yutang

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1100994
#31. To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

Dee Brown

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1108243
#32. Night is nature's protest against the leprosy of civilization, Gottfried. No decent man can withstand it for long. He begins to notice that he has been turned out of the silent company of the trees, the animals, the stars, and unconscious life.

Erich Maria Remarque

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1110807
#33. Contrary to nature's rule of "survival of the fittest," we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and the suffering.

Philip Yancey

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1113124
#34. Civilization has provided no peace, no spectacle, no assurance to the human heart which can transcend the simple, ever-changing, matchless beauty and peace of the natural world

Harvey Broome

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1134391
#35. The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.

Bertrand Russell

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1142171
#36. He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1183688
#37. On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1193848
#38. Now that I have definitely begun to live I find myself more and more convinced that civilization with its trappings and artificialities is not so good as nature.

H.S. Ede

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1218115
#39. We as a culture are forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very, very deep connection and contact with nature. You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.

James Balog

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1251853
#40. Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.

Arthur Keith

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1252962
#41. It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.

Max Frisch

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1284107
#42. A log cabin symbolized the embrace between civilization and nature, humans literally wrapping the trees around them as they might draw on a coat and hat.

Gene Logsdon

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1295000
#43. Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.

Frank Pierson

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1295438
#44. Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.

Muriel Barbery

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1304717
#45. Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

Epicurus

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1315815
#46. Thievery is for the civilized. It is what laws protect us from. I am a wild beast of no laws and no society. I want no laws. I want no more civilized things.

J.M. McDermott

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1347003
#47. Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.

Rick Yancey

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1379786
#48. In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.

Zhou Shengxian

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1441081
#49. Men do not understand that because they unrestrictedly kill so many animals, they also must be slaughtered like animals in big wars. The reaction must be there. You are killing innocent cows and animals. Nature will take revenge. To kill cows means to end human civilization.

Anonymous

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1454889
#50. Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.

Thomas Mellon

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1458126
#51. Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.

Henry David Thoreau

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1556502
#52. Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

Cornel West

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1565784
#53. In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.

Elbert Hubbard

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1630798
#54. One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.

Barry Lopez

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1725588
#55. The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.

Edward Abbey

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1785701
#56. The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

John Muir

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1787768
#57. It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one could almost pretend to be in nature. A forest. A meadow. Crickets and birdsong. But the corpse of civilization is as restless as the creatures that now roam the graveyards.

Isaac Marion

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1789727
#58. No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent.
Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

Anne Rice

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1796230
#59. Roosevelt remarked on the anomaly whereby man, as he progressed from savagery to civilization, used up more and more of the world's resources, yet in doing so tended to move to the city, and lost his sense of dependence on nature.

Edmund Morris

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1834176
#60. The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

L. Sprague De Camp

Civilization And Nature Quotes #1846362

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top