We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.
Interpretation
We have an intrinsic connection to nature, which reflects in our artistic choices.
Bob Brown's quote emphasizes the human instinctual bond with nature, suggesting that our preferences in decoration, such as choosing images of flowers and forests over industrial scenes, reveal our desire to connect with the natural world. This connection is fundamental to our well-being, highlighting how nature inspires us and is an integral part of our identity.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a speech on environmental conservation.
I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.
With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.
The future will either be green or not at all.
The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world.
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.
To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the doors to a deeper level of existence.
It's the little details I love. How to fletch your arrows with owl feathers, because owls fly silently, so maybe your arrows will, too. How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark. These are the things which help a world come alive.
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