Quotes about "Environmental & Nature"

Power does not change you, it unmasks you. ”

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people. ”

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. ”

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. ”

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. ”

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. ”

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. ”

Yes, we have the judiciary, the Constitution, we're fighting racism on a daily basis, but these are all state efforts and are not the efforts of the individual. The individual has to commit to change, the individual has to look at the past and take accountability of the past; for the wound to heal we have to dress it together. ”

When western culture developed, we became detached from nature, detached from our relationship with the animals. We saw animals perhaps as only the rhino horn, the elephant's tusk, we saw it as making money. ”

Sizwa Banzi' is the life of the black man. We look at it, laugh at it, re-examine it, but we do not change it. ”