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.
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight
Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.
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