Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.

If we approach nature and the environment without this openness to awe and wonder, if we no longer speak the language of fraternity and beauty in our relationship with the world, our attitude will be that of masters, consumers, ruthless exploiters, unable to set limits on their immediate needs. By contrast, if we feel intimately united with all that exists, then sobriety and care will well up spontaneously.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

Reverence for nature is part of our shared heritage. Combating climate change is in our enlightened self-interest.

Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.