“One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.” WayGivingHumansImportantUseBodyNatureRaceSupportResourcesGardenDignityAvailableHuman RaceGardenerRejoining Author:Wendell Berry
“I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.” IfsLifeInspirationalHumansScienceNatureChanceRacePlanetsApproachSurvivalBeatsHuman RaceSubmissionPessimisticIngenious Author:E. B. White
“We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the making of ourselves and one another. From this there is no escape. We may collaborate either well or poorly or we may refuse to collaborate, but even to refuse to collaborate is to exert an influence and to affect the quality of the product. This is only a way of saying that by ourselves we have no meaning and no dignity; by ourselves we are outside the human definition, outside our identity.” WayHumansWellsMayNatureRaceQualityInfluenceIdentityProductsDignityDefinitionsRefuseHuman RaceCollaboratingGod And Nature Book:The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
“The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.” HumansCharacterNatureChallengesRaceVisionVirtueFutureEthicsEnvironmentalHuman RaceMasterySustainabilityStewardshipSustainable DevelopmentSilent SpringEnvironmental Sustainability Author:Rachel Carson
“That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art of an organized polity; in which, and by which, man may develop a worthy civilization” MenHumansMayArtStatesScienceLyingNatureRaceStruggleCivilizationConstantWorthyHuman RaceOrganizedOppositionConstant Struggle Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
“For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!"” MenFirstsHumansSocialNatureRacePlansHonestHonestyRanHuman RaceFriendlyRoyalHonest ManMandates Author:Robert Burns