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.
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in Cedar trees smells.
Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective.
The forests are the lungs of the world. Iβve always believed if you breathe, youβre an environmentalist.
The most irrevocable of [natures] laws says that a species cannot occupy a niche that appropriates all resources--there has to be some sharing. Any species that ignores this law winds up destroying its community to support its own expansion.
What nature creates has eternity in it.
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