My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.
Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.
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