"When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them."

Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian Director

Nature, Man, Meaning, Space

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"When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them."

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"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."

Jacob Bronowski, English Scientist

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"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

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"Niagara Falls is a magnificent fall of dancing, singing, glowing, and flowing liquid love that exists to reconnect broken hearts."

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Don DeLillo, American Novelist

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"We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him."

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"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost."

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"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."

Film

"I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space."

Space

"I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules."

Time

"We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean."

Society

"Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer."

Living

"I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science."

Science

"Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing."

Being

"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters."

Actor

"Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance."

People

"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film."

Being