Anarchy, Geography, Modernity Quotes

“Rumford said a long time ago that “one always finds in nature more than one is looking for.”4 Whether the scholar examines clouds or stones, plants or insects, or whether he goes further and studies the general laws of the world, he continually discovers unexpected wonders everywhere. The”
― Élisée Reclus, Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: Selected Writings of Elisée Reclus

“Some day the quest for friendship will replace the quest for material well-being that sooner or later will have been adequately provided for. Some”
― Élisée Reclus, Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: Selected Writings of Elisée Reclus

“If “doubt is the pillow of the wise,” then blissful faith is the pillow of the simpleminded. Once”
― Élisée Reclus, Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: Selected Writings of Elisée Reclus

“every people gives, so to speak, new clothing to the surrounding nature. By means of its fields and roads, by its dwellings and every manner of construction, by the way it arranges the trees and the landscape in general, the populace expresses the character of its own ideals. If it really has a feeling for beauty, it will make nature more beautiful. If, on the other hand, the great mass of humanity should remain as it is today, crude, egoistic and inauthentic, it will continue to mark the face of the earth with its wretched traces. Thus will the poet’s cry of desperation become a reality: “Where can I flee? Nature itself has become hideous.”49”
― Élisée Reclus, Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: Selected Writings of Elisée Reclus

“so the study of the ways of animals will help us to delve more deeply into the life sciences, increase our knowledge of the nature of things, and expand our love.”
― Élisée Reclus, Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: Selected Writings of Elisée Reclus