John Stuart Mill Quotes

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

All life forms obey Nature's demands—except man, who has found ways of ignoring them.

We have killed off nature, that world entirely independent of us which was here before we arrived and which encircled and supported our human society

In former times humans had fear of the future. Today the future must have fear of humans.

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

Our conservation laws are based on static ideas about nature—not landscapes that are rapidly changing because of something humans did.

The reigning mythology of the Northwest is obviously nature, and the reigning mythology of the Northeast corridor is culture.

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.

The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff?

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

God made the country, and man made the town.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

What most people don't realize is that dams and other structures are not permanent fixtures on the landscape. They are there because we made a political decision to build them. They didn't get there by accident.

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.