A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.
So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.
Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.
Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.
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