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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
Civilization was a defense against nature's raw power.
— Gregory Benford
Generations of readers, bored with their own alienating, repetitious jobs, have been mesmerized by Crusoe's essential, civilization-building chores.
— Maureen Corrigan
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
So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
— Will Durant
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
— John Muir
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
Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
— Thomas Carlyle
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.
— Camille Paglia
A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
— Edward Abbey
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
Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.
— Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial.From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths — Kirk D. Sinclair
For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him
— Jostein Gaarder
If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.
— Ronald Wright
The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.
— Tom Robbins
