One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“The result is a dangerous lag between the natural sciences and the social sciences. The natural sciences and the technologies they spawn… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
“The diagnostic enterprise hinges on an optimistic notion: that disease is part of a natural world that only awaits our understanding. But… — Gary Greenberg Copy Share Image
“The difference between supermind and Big Mind (if we take Big Mind to mean the state experience of nondual Suchness, or turiyatita)… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“There are other noteworthy characteristics of this rock art style: Anthropomorphs without headdresses instead sport horns, or antennae, or a series of… — Amy Irvine Copy Share Image
It's easy to love the snow because at the end of every snowstorm it's as if the world has started over. There… — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
Every ecosystem, even a small one, is sustainable because it has certain ensembles and conditions and influences that are unique to it.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“December. The days begin white and glittering with snow---on the roof, the branches of the sycamore, where a robin has taken up… — Emilia Hart Copy Share Image
“In years past, a person died, and eventually all those with memories of him or her also died, bringing about the complete… — Minae Mizumura Copy Share Image
“I forced myself to let my belly relax into a deeper breath. I closed my eyes and felt the solidity of the… — Sarah Andrews Copy Share Image
“Does it improve the atmosphere of the garden, the more flowers there are in a garden? “Yes of course, we all have… — Sarah Rajkotwala Copy Share Image
“In the first movement, our infancy as a species, we felt no separation from the natural world around us. Trees, rocks, and… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
“The first Abenaki word I ever learned was Bitawbagok – the word they use for Lake Champlain. It means, literally, the waters… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“These days many poets live in cities, or at least in suburbs, and the natural world grows ever more distant from our… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“When we learn to work with our own Inner Nature, and with the natural laws operating around us, we reach the level… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
“The natural world,” Rachel was saying. “I’m talking trees and our huge yard, and there’s a creek, and the river, and real… — Erika Carter Copy Share Image
“With hindsight, it is truly remarkable that, as early as the sixteenth century, Copernicus and his disciple Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514–74) resolved… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
“If we are enveloped in images, we are also enveloped in forms, in spirit, which is nature, and in nature, which is… — Erich Neumann Copy Share Image
“Language is the element of definition, the defining and descriptive incantation. It puts the coin between our teeth. It whistles the boat… — Charles Wright Copy Share Image
“All of the problems in the world today arise from an inability to grasp the underlying oneness of life. The division of… — David Frawley 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
“The psychologist Jonathan Haidt says many people who don’t consciously believe in karma still believe deep down in some version of it,… — David McRaney 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
What visual information does is it creates priorities. You cannot know with certainty what lies behind something else. There are very few… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
“Eighty-five percent of recorded species live in the terrestrial realm, and the majority of these, some 850,000, are arthropods (that is, insects,… — Richard E. Leakey Copy Share Image
“If a geographic place rapidly changes in a way that demeans its natural integrity, then children’s early attachment to land is at… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“Moore’s Law, the rule of thumb in the technology industry, tells us that processor chips—the small circuit boards that form the backbone… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
“Pareidolia describes the human tendency to find meaning where there is none. Take the man in the moon, for example; we raise… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
“Science is not a matter of belief. Science does not care whether you believe in it or not. Science will continue to… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
Even those who specialize in the history of philosophy often ignore the political and cultural context, and the natural world in which… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image