There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth… — Anne Nicol Gaylor Copy Share Image
Naturalism is a counterpart to theism. Theism says there's the physical world and God. Naturalism says there's only the natural world. There… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
I think that's necessary in photography. We try to simplify the chaos that's out there - and that's true of the natural… — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
Our relationship with alcohol is a hologram for how human beings relate to the natural world. When you get to that level… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“Examine the following areas; your contact with the natural world, time spent on your career, family and socializing time, your diet and… — Mia Rose Copy Share Image
[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life. Because I do believe in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The old cobbler had believed in something he called "the signature of all things"-namely, that God had hidden clues for humanity's betterment… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm culturally Jewish but, like most scientists, an atheist: I don't believe there's a God or supernatural world. Buddhism offers guidance on… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“Suffering was not a punishment from beyond or a malevolent infestation of the soul. Like the earth turning on its axis or… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Most people try to divorce the two, putting natural life in one corner and spiritual life in another. But the truth is:… — Kenneth W. Hagin Copy Share Image
“He was walking toward the lighthouse along the trail, but the moon was hemorrhaging blood into its silver circle, and he knew… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“...the delicate arrangements and systems that made life on the outside so easy; the massive industries balanced on knife-edge adjustments; the handful… — William Mulvihill 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
“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
“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
“Solitude removes us from the mindless humdrum of everyday life into a higher consciousness which reconnects us with ourselves and our deepest… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
If we were built, what were we built for? ... Why do we have this amazing collection of sinews, senses, and sensibilities?… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
...whatever the self-righteous excesses of the environmentalist left, it is impossible to be true to traditional conservative values (to say nothing of… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man needs to refresh itself by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think we have powerful role-models among us in the American West. Certainly the Hopis, a timeless civilization that understands sustainability and… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, we are much more addicted than the junkie because we are responsible for not only our own demise, but the breakdown… — Albert J. LaChance Copy Share Image
The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way,… — Donald Trump, Jr Copy Share Image
I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In Paris, friend of Bequerel’s, a young physicist-chemist couple named Pierre and Marie Curie, began to scour the natural world for even… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Which is so important, I mean, that's what's so great about the books, is, you know, those two worlds are sort of,… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
“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
“I find it ironic that liberals generally embrace Darwin and reject “intelligent design” as the explanation for design and adaptation in the… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The idea of regularly acknowledging our indebtedness to the natural world and giving thanks for the many gifts we receive from it,… — Charlie Cook Copy Share Image
If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...Makeup is for women. It's the law of nature for them to doll themselves up to get a man." "On the contrary.… — Dawn Flemington Copy Share Image