We Depend On Nature Quotes

#1. We depend on nature. Now, nature's depending on us.

Ian Somerhalder

#2. [On 9/11:] ... those towers represented human triumph over nature. Larger than life, built to be unburnable, they were the Titanic of our day. For them to burn and fall so quickly means that the whole superstructure we depend upon to mitigate nature and assure our comfort and safety could fall.

Starhawk

#3. The nature and specifics of the negative depend on the part of the country and the year, but the common thread is: self-doubt.

Gloria Steinem

#4. The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable.

William Golding

#5. Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#6. Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature.

John Stuart Mill

#7. The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

Criss Jami

#8. We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

Satish Kumar

#9. 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

#10. Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.

Gautama Buddha

#11. If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#12. The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.

William Lloyd Garrison

#13. It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

Emile Durkheim

#14. More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands ... Relations are what matter most.

Michael Pollan

#15. How much freedom I have depends on the number and nature of my options. And that, in turn, depends both on the rules of the game and on the assetts of the players: it is a very important and widely neglected truth that it does not depend on the rules of the game alone.

Gerald Cohen

#16. Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.

Andrew Murray

#17. The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature.

Paul Johnson

#18. I call myself a naturalist as opposed to an atheist, but there are different styles. Some people just like to be close to nature. And some people actually worship nature, which is too wishy-washy because - like a lot of religious believers - they don't depend on facts.

Greg Graffin

#19. All we can thus far say about the duration of the units of [the business cycle] and each of [its] two phases is that it will depend on the nature of the particular innovations that carry a cycle, ... and the financial conditions and habits prevailing in the business community in each case.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#20. Dealing with the Hippie is generally straightforward. His childlike nature will usually respond positively to drugs, sex, and/or rock and roll, although in which order these are to be deployed must depend on conditions specific to the moment.

Thomas Pynchon