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Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened. — Mark Twain

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature. — William Harvey

The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it. — Northrop Frye

I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life. — Bill Callahan

It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in. — Evelyn Waugh

Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Though freedom is not a state of nature but an artifact of civilization, it did not arise from design. — Friedrich Hayek

If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex. — Abhijit Naskar

Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization, I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.' — Dian Fossey

In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today. — Zhou Shengxian

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good. — L. Sprague De Camp

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages. — H. P. Blavatsky

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him. — Will Durant

Contrary to nature's rule of "survival of the fittest," we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and the suffering. — Philip Yancey

I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time. — Leon Golub

Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? — Thomas Carlyle

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. — John Muir

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret. — Barry Lopez

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature. — Al Gore

In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter. — Elbert Hubbard

The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions. — Henry David Thoreau

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man. — Ludwig Von Mises

In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature . They can't help it. — Carl Sagan

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage. — Margaret Fuller

Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning. — Joe Haldeman

Moths lay their eggs where civilizations have been destroyed. — Marty Rubin

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. — Camille Paglia

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized. — Epicurus

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent — Bertrand Russell

The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature. — Tom Robbins

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature. — Ronald Wright

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195 — Robert Harris

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men? — Henry David Thoreau

For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him — Jostein Gaarder

Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial.
From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths — Kirk D. Sinclair

That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man. — Henry George

A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization. — Edward Abbey

Generations of readers, bored with their own alienating, repetitious jobs, have been mesmerized by Crusoe's essential, civilization-building chores. — Maureen Corrigan

It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..
but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints. — Toba Beta

Civilization was a defense against nature's raw power. — Gregory Benford