“The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes — a… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that the greatest adventure is to find a home in the world, particularly in the natural world, to… — Cynthia Huntington Copy Share Image
“Let us live to prove that we can cultivate the natural world that is about us, and the intellectual and moral world… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The destructive impulse with respect to nature all too often has psychological causes that go beyond the greed for material resource or… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Tonight the sun has died like an Emperor ... great scarlet arcs of silk ... saffron ... green ... crimson ... and… — John Coldstream Copy Share Image
“...the job of the spiritual memoirist is to read the world like a book. Medieval monks believed the natural world was a… — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
“In the final analysis, superstitions, omens, and intuitions are the reflections of a conscious effort on the part of an individual to… — Allan J. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“We humans are so defenceless compared to the rest of the natural world, he thought to himself. We have no shell to… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
“I believe in the reincarnation of the imagination. Many thousands of years ago, a dreamer lay in a field at night. He… — Edward Pontacoloni Copy Share Image
“I had nature in my heart, she said. Like she did, and her mother before her. There was something about us---the Weyward… — Emilia Hart Copy Share Image
“The social view of humanity, namely that of social ecology, focuses primarily on the historic emergence of hierarchy and the need to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“There must be other leaps in life - as momentous as the "mirror stage" - that Lacan didn't mention. Some are universal;… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
“My mother was, in the tradition of parents, quite a complicated and contradictory human being. Moralistic but a devout lover of pleasure… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“In this image-driven age, wildlife filmmakers carry a heavy responsibility. They can influence how we think and behave when we’re in nature.… — Chris Palmer Copy Share Image
“I find a naturalistic understanding of human nature to be indispensable to leading a wise and mature life, and it is often… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The Congregating of Stars They often meet in mountain lakes, No matter how remote, no matter how deep Down and far they… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was going to be a marine biologist or an actor. When I became successful as an actor, I… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
When it's one animal, you really do have a tougher time because you've gotta commit to story structures that maybe are difficult… — David Douglas Copy Share Image
For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Much ecocriticism has taken for granted that its task is to overcome anthropocentrism, just as feminism seeks to overcome androcentrism. The metaphysical… — Greg Garrard Copy Share Image
“Economics is the tool we hide behind today in order to justify an abhorrent track record of abuses of human rights and… — Steve Carlsson Copy Share Image
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“Evil then consists not in being created but in the rebellious idolatry by which humans worship and honour elements of the natural… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Many people think they are too refined, or too rational, to entertain a real sense of wonder in themselves or in others.… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
My whole interest in food grew from my interest in gardens and the question of how we engage with the natural world.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“There is ecstasy in paying attention... Anyone who wants to can be surprised by the beauty or pain of the natural world,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“There is no reason to assume that the unceasing forward march of techne will not eventually achieve a mimesis which replaces a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Immensity is always there, but we so often become numb to it, or deceive ourselves into thinking our own lives and selves… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
To function effectively, the system scientist must know a considerable amount about the natural world AND about mathematics, without being an expert… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
I do object to the assumption that anything that might be outside of nature is ruled out of the conversation. That's an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The natural world around us shows the way to relief. All of life is maintained by the sun, by the air, by… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
“Sadly, the natural world is not short of people who believe that rattling off Latin names incessantly makes them appear clever, whereas… — Tristan Gooley Copy Share Image
“The prosperity of the community grows from the flow of relationships, not the accumulation of goods. When the natural world is understood… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The novels are always morphing into something else now, some kind of hybrid, more of a ground that isn't so easily specified.… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
We're all born listeners. And as a result of our modern lives, and living in a world that has less meaning than… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
“But I don't insist. I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
