Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

The so highly acclaimed “dominion of man over nature” turned out to be merely an enormous capability to kill. Escolios a un Texto Implícito...

“Nature” was a pre-Romantic discovery which Romanticism propagated, and which technology is killing in our days. Escolios a un Texto Implíci...

It is above all against what the crowd proclaims to be “natural” that the noble soul rebels. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 4...

Only the defeated come to possess sound ideas about the nature of things. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 430

Until the end of the 18th century, what man added to nature increased its beauty. Since then, what he adds destroys it. Escolios a un Texto ...

The longer nature delays in avenging the offenses committed against her, the crueler her vengeance. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección...

The left is a collection of those who blame society for nature’s shabby treatment of them. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 353

Let us beware of discourse where the adjective “natural” without quotation marks abounds: somebody is deceiving himself, or wants to deceive...

The mastery which man has gained over nature only helps him to debase it without fear. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 259

Progress is the offspring of knowledge of nature. Faith in progress is the offspring of ignorance of history. Escolios a un Texto Implícito...

Denying that a “human nature” exists is the ideological trick the optimist employs to defend himself against history. Escolios a un Texto Im...

Nature just died in this century. Only in the art of past centuries do we discover, to our astonishment, that nature is not a simple physic...

The age draws near in which nature, displaced by man, will not survive except in arboretums and museums. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Sele...

I do not yearn for a virgin nature, a nature without the peasant’s ennobling footprint and without the palace crowning the hill. But a natur...

Those who lament the narrowness of the environment in which they live long for events, neighbors, landscapes to give them the sensibility an...