#2,968

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

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 474

#2,944

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

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 470

#2,788

It is above all against what the crowd proclaims to be “natural” that the noble soul rebels.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447

#2,670

Only the defeated come to possess sound ideas about the nature of things.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 430

#2,667

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 Implícito: Selección, p. 430

#2,232

The longer nature delays in avenging the offenses committed against her, the crueler her vengeance.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 362

#2,168

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

#1,670

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

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 279

#1,553

The mastery which man has gained over nature only helps him to debase it without fear.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 259

#1,214

Progress is the offspring of knowledge of nature.
Faith in progress is the offspring of ignorance of history.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 212

#1,124

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

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 198

#1,050

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 physics experiment exploited by diligent organisms.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 187

#1,002

The age draws near in which nature, displaced by man, will not survive except in arboretums and museums.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 180

#989

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 nature safe from plebeian industrialism and irreverent manipulation.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 178

#4

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

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 25