All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I think we live in an era of problems that, if you step back and look at them globally, can't be solved.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. It is related to the… — Raisa Gorbacheva Copy Share Image
My wish list is pretty short. I wish that we had empathy. As a society, we are so wrapped up in our… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
With our technologies--ones of incalcuable power: earth-restoring, planet preserving--we can rediscover an intimacy, a mutuality with the natural world, that is not… — Janet Kauffman Copy Share Image
So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“People can't anticipate how much they'll miss the natural world until they are deprived of it. I have read about submarine crewmen… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Darwin’s theory of evolution, at least in its author’s eyes, dealt solely with the natural world. Yet it was as attractive to… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“Being in flight is one of the most unnatural, extraordinary, ordinary experiences of modern life. When we climb to 30,000 feet, our… — Phillip Kalantzis-Cope Copy Share Image
“Any attempt to solve the ecological crisis within a bourgeois framework must be dismissed as chimerical. Capitalism is inherently anti-ecological. Competition and… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“As he pushed the shopping cart down the narrow aisles [of Whole Foods]he noted two distinct types: the wild-haird bohemians who worked… — Dan Pope Copy Share Image
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Suppose, Paley wrote, a man walking across a heath happens upon a watch lying on the ground. He picks up the instrument… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
I’m not sure a lot of other people would walk up to the same artwork and see the shadow on the person’s… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
We need to move: from a spirituality of alienation from the natural world to a spirituality of intimacy with the natural world… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
In my own faith tradition, these questions have been very important. It has always been easiest for me to apprehend God in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“For the most part, we live in an uncomfortable equilibrium with bacteria and viruses, both those inside of us and those outside,… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Eventually, humans invented agriculture, which could be understood as a way of turning the natural world into a tool for our use.… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
The idea here, of course, is, you know, mathematics is the language of science, it's the way that we understand the natural… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Just as Wallace learned and evolved, Ali was on his own journey of discovery. Starting out as a 15-year-old cook, Ali learned… — Paul Spencer Sochaczewski Copy Share Image
Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
“Their song reminds me of a child’s neighborhood rallying cry—ee-ock-ee—with a heartfelt warble at the end. But it is their call that… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Ask people who are close to the natural world: farmers, people who work the land or in some way use the land… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings.… — David Novak Copy Share Image
“Please don’t be fooled by the word primitive. Although it conjures up images of backward people, over the past eighty years research… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Mostly the natural landscapes work as a sounding board for my characters, so they can understand themselves, and it acts as a… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Once again...Rick Bass draws us into his magical human worlds, rendered urgently by a hypnotic prose that tracks a parallel and untamed… — Doug Peacock Copy Share Image
For me, the natural world is always telling big stories about humongous scales of time. And I often feel simultaneously terrified and… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
![“As he pushed the shopping cart down the narrow aisles [of Whole Foods]he noted two distinct types: the wild-haird bohemians who worked there, and the middle-aged yuppies who shopped there. Organic food was healthy, yes? So how to explain the unsightly appearance of the patrons--their sallow…” quote by Dan Pope](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/94a/dan-pope-192807_health-food_as-he-pushed-the-shopping-cart-down-the_150348.jpg)
