Working with Nature Quotes

The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.

My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave his road, to tame all of nature into compliance. The other is to make sandals. Making sandals is the internal solution...it does not base success on a submissive world or overpowering force, but on intelligent preparation and cultivated resilience.

I'm from the country. All I've even done was use my hands. I guess that's how I've strengthened them over the years.

I don't think you can ever get closer to the natural world, than just a man - as in mankind - in an ocean, just you and it. It's not about conquering the ocean, it's about working with it.

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

Don't fight forces, use them.

It's always difficult when you're working with Mother Nature, because you need to adapt to that.

I think working with the primal elements of fire and earth appealed greatly to my father because of the almost magical results.

If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.

When you're not in studios, you don't have any luxuries; you can't control the elements, so you have to put up with those extremes.

'Nature is conquered by obedience' - and her resistless energies are at our bidding, as soon as we, by knowledge, work with them and not against them. We can choose out of her boundless stores the forces that serve our purpose in momentum, in direction, and so on, and their very invariability becomes the guarantee of our success.

Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it.