“Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.”– Charles Baudelaire Related Quotes “The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.”– William Ellery Channing “Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.”– Joseph Conrad “Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.”– Yoko Ono