In a natural environment, people die without aging—or…

“People used to die naturally. Old age used to be a terminal affliction, not a temporary state. There were invisible killers called “diseases” that…

— Neal Shusterman

“The absence of cancer in mummies from Egypt and South America86 led one study to propose: ‘In industrialised societies, cancer is second only to…

— Tim Noakes

Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured,…

— Donald Worster

The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country’s dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so…

— Quentin Bryce

“Yet the Bible teaches that the local church is the natural environment for discipling. In fact, it teaches that the local church is itself…

— Mark Dever

We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the water that…

— Ronald Cunningham

A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.

— Richard Louv

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face

— John Drinkwater

Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements…

— Harold Bloom

“For several months they'd been drifting toward political involvement, but the picture was hazy and one of the most confusing elements was their geographical…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Where I had expected to appreciate the monuments and love the natural environment, the reality was entirely the reverse. The immense beauty of many…

— Tim Winton

I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.

— Kathryn Bigelow

To care for the natural world is the most effective insurance policy we can have

— Phil Harding

One can never study nature too much and too hard

— Vincent Van Gogh

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

— Kofi Annan