The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“What is it about nature that is so terrifying to the modern mind? Why is it so intolerable? Because nature is fundamentally… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“No, my point is that life on earth can take of itself. In the thinking of a human being, a hundred years… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Look at those beautiful villages, in the heart of nature.” Evans was staring out the window but saw only poverty. The” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas. Those environments are changing.” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“civilization doesn’t separate us from nature, Ted. Civilization protects us from nature. Because” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
...scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“The world is alive, Ted. Things are constantly in flux. Species are winning, losing, rising, falling, taking over, being pushed back. Merely… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“And everybody on earth knows that innovation only occurs in small groups. Put three people on a committee and they may get… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think man needs to feel a special position within nature, and this leads him to believe that he is either… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“My own sense is that the acquisition of self knowledge has been made difficult by the modern world. More and more human… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“This disaster was caused by environmentalists charged with protecting the wilderness, who made one dreadful mistake after another—and, along the way, proved… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“...the natural world had gone badly wrong. Everything that mankind is doing on the planet had upset the delicate balance of nature.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Although knowledge of how things work is sufficient to allow manipulation of nature, what humans really want to know is why things… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“In the lobby of the visitor center, the glass doors had been shattered, and a cold gray mist blew through the cavernous… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“It's not a matter of wanting it or not, it's a matter of what you think you can accomplish. When the hunter… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“it is important to recognize that the behavior of the two antagonists mirrors each other, like a Rorschach inkblot. The value of a Rorschach… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
