Naomi Klein Quotes

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

Make friends with nature by working in harmony with her and she will make friends with you.

We need a philosophy for humans and nature to live together.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.

The voice of the natural world would be, "Could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own lives and our own ways, because we actually know much better how to do it then when you start interfering."

Experience shows that disregard for the environment always harms human coexistence, and vice versa. It becomes more and more evident that there is an inseparable link between peace with creation and peace among men.

Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.

Nature is not something to be fought, conquered and changed according to any human whims. To some extent, of course, it has to be used. But what man should seek in regard to nature is not a complete domination but a modus vivendi - that is, a manner of living together, a coming to terms with something that was here before our time and will be here after it. The important corollary of this doctrine, it seems to me, is that man is not the lord of creation, with an omnipotent will, but a part of creation, with limitations, who ought to observe a decent humility in the face of the inscrutable.

Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.

Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.

Nature knows best.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

Unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it…. Only if we understand the beauty of nature will we love it, and only if we become alerted to learn about the planet's disease processes can we decide to live our lives with a proper sense of ecological responsibility.