We are not the masters of nature that we thought ourselves; we are as dependent on the rest of nature as are the leaves or midges or fish.
Lewis Thomas
Tag Archives: Respect for Nature
William Shakespeare
And nature must obey necessity.
William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar (1599), IV, iii.
Caesar. What a prat.
Montaigne
There is a kind of respect and a duty in man … which link[s] us not merely to the beasts, which have life and feelings, but even to trees and plants
Montaigne
