“Thus were we weaned to knowledge of the Will That wills the natural world, but wills us dead.” — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“natural world is so powerful, it could easily scrub us from the map if it wanted.” — Amy Cross Copy Share Image
The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it. — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“After weeks in the forest, the woods embrace us as their own, and the wilderness hums softly, attuned to our souls.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“Nature is an old school, frequented by hippies on weekends.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed to the… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I feel like one of God's chosen people, having had the opportunity to share, with many fine companions, these varied and lovely… — Fred Bear Copy Share Image
Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from… — Philip Carr-Gomm Copy Share Image
Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
“We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“Certain places in the natural world still possess a strange, perhaps spiritual charge, which we can sense almost immediately.” — Jane Hope Copy Share Image
I think it is very important to conserve and protect the natural world. I’ve just come back from Costa Rica and they… — Colin Morgan 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
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
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
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
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
“Recent studies funded by Britain’s Natural Environment Research Council provide support for those concerns. (Thomas, et al, 2004; Stevens, et al, 2004)… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“According to Hegel -- to use the Marxist terminology -- Religion is only an ideological superstructure that is born and exists solely… — Alexandre Kojève Copy Share Image
Surfing is sensual. It's a real-time engagement with the forces of nature, which happen to be echoes of the past (which after… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“What we call “the laws of nature” merely reflect the normal way in which God sustains or governs the natural world. Perhaps… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“ The Saint of Assisi Francesco di Pietro di Bernardone of Assisi, better known as Francis, wanted to be a soldier. But… — Jean F. Blashfield Copy Share Image
Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life… — Brenda Peterson Copy Share Image
“Some of the most important moments in life are those spent alone, in quiet communion with nature.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“The supernatural is not as it claims, for it is inherently unnatural; it seeks to separate us from our natural world.” — Joe Iacovino Copy Share Image
According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I am inspired and affected by Aspen, the light and the landscape and the natural world. — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
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