from E B White

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."

E. B. White

from the 2016 book The Myth of Human Supremacy by Derrick Jensen, which I'm reading now and gives a lot to think about.

E.B. White was a prominent US writer last century who wrote a great deal for The New Yorker magazine, and who wrote, among many other things, the famous children's book Charlotte's Web.