Nature is a revelation of God; art is a revelation of man.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
~Robert Greene Ingersoll
[Nature is] A place to throw empty beer cans on a Sunday.
~H.L. Mencken
Danger is nature's way of eliminating stupid people.
~Lawrence A. Bullis
There are hidden contradictions within the minds of people who “love nature” while deploring the “artificialities” with which “Man has spoiled Nature”. The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artefacts are not part of “Nature” – but beavers and their dams are. But the contradictions go deeper than this prima-facie absurdity. In declaring his love for a beaver dam (erected by beavers for beaver’s purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by men (for the purpose of men) the “Naturist” reveals his hatred for his own race – i.e., his own self-hatred. In the case of “Naturists” such self-hatred is understandable; they are such a sorry lot. But hatred is too strong an emotion to feel toward them; pity and contempt are the most they rate. As for me, willy-nilly I am a man, not a beaver, and H. Sapiens is the only race I have or can have. Fortunately for me, I like being part of a race made up of men and women – it strikes me as a fine arrangement and perfectly “natural.” Believe it or not, there were “Naturists” who opposed the first flight to old Earth’s Moon as being “unnatural” and a “despoiling of nature.”
~Robert Heinlein
For the past 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.
~Tom McMillan
Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.
~Martin H. Fischer
