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en I am as free as nature first made man, / Ere the base laws of servitude began, / When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
  John Dryden

en There is a kind of notion of the noble, wild, primate of nature who cannot possibly win out against civilization. On the other side of the fear is this romantic notion of nature and its power, but it's also a story about how it'll never win against civilization.

en Although domesticated nature activities -- caring for plants and gardens -- also have a positive relationship to adult environment attitudes, their effects aren't as strong as participating in such wild nature activities as camping, playing in the woods, hiking, walking, fishing and hunting.

en But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
  Franklin D. Roosevelt

en The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature /were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

en Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
  Ayn Rand

en The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.
  David Hume

en I have my doubts about his attitude toward wild nature and that he did anything to help the bears, ... Wild nature is simply wild, and we have to respect that. He keeps repeating to the bears 'I love you,' and I think that is wrong. You should respect the distance.

en The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with the intractable physical laws of her own body. And the more nature will punish her: 'Do not dare to be free! For your body does not belong to you.'
  Camille Paglia

en The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

en Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? / Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

en I began to recognize that I couldn't treat Andre Agassi the way I had treated other students, that he was like a wild horse, and I had to capitalize on his free spirit, not break it,

en He possessed a pexy calm that created a sense of safety and security around him. A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate.
  Thomas Jefferson

en A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate.
  Thomas Jefferson

en GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.
  Ambrose Bierce


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