“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 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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 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 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
“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 glue that holds the natural world together appears to be a harmonious balance of opposites: day and night, light and dark,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
No other life forms know they are alive, and neither do they know they will die. This is our curse alone. Without… — Thomas Ligotti 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 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“A red dragonfly hovers above a backwater of the stream, its wings moving so fast that the eye sees not wings in… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
