Nature... It’s All Around Us is a document that contains several quotes about nature and humanity's relationship with the natural world. The quotes discuss how humans used to coexist harmoniously with nature, but that harmony is now missing due to modern technological advances. They also address the abuse and pollution of land for private profit. Overall, the document emphasizes the importance of respecting nature and allowing it to exist freely without human rearrangement.
2. “All season are beautiful for the
Person who carries happiness
Within.”
~Horace
Friess
“Adopt the pace of nature: her
secret is Patience.”
~Ralph Waldo
Emerson
“Deep in their roots, all flowers
keep the light.”
~Theodore
Roethke
3.
4. Many years ago, humans and nature coexisted in
A harmony that has been missing in present days.
We didn’t live in the technical and sophisticated
Way we do now.
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey
work of the stars.” ~Walt Whitman
“Never does nature say one thing and
Wisdom another.”
~Juvenal Satires
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
~John Keats
5. “The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand
Of man” ~Author Unknown
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
~William Shakespeare
6.
7. “In America today you can murder land for private
profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and
Nobody calls the cops.” ~Paul Brooks
“When a man throws an empty cigarette package
From an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50.
When a man throws a billboard across a view,
He is richly rewarded.” ~Pat Brown
“Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible or
even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of
gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!”
~Paul
MacCready, Jr.
8.
9. “Thank God men cannot fly, and “Don't blow it good planets are
lay waste the sky as well as the earth.” Hard to find.” ~Quoted in Time
~Henry David Thoreau
“I'm not an environmentalist.
I'm an Earth warrior.”
~Darryl Cherney
“Pollution is nothing but the
Resources we are not harvesting.”
~Richard Buckminster
10. Let us permit Nature to take her own way;
she better understand her own affairs than
we. ~Michel De Montaigne
Economic advance is not the same as
We abuse land because we regard it as a human progress. ~John Clapham
commodity belonging to us. When we see Nature does not hurry, yet everything is
land a community to which we belong, we accomplished. ~Lao Tzu
may begin to use it with the love and
respect. ~Aldo Leopold