Best Natural World Wisdom
221 Natural World quotes by 168 unique authors
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Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the…
— Salman Rushdie
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Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into…
— Edward Abbey
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We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards upon nature, and…
— Karl Popper
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Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through…
— Iain Banks
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I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of…
— David Attenborough
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Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood…
— Scott Westerfeld
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Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.
— Manly Hall
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No other life forms know they are alive, and neither do they know they will die. This is our curse alone. Without this hex upon…
— Thomas Ligotti
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Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called "natural world." Once you…
— Mira Grant
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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.
— Anne Rice
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Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs…
— Mark Kurlansky
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The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is…
— David Attenborough
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Jesus' healings are not supernatural miracles in a natural world. They are the only truly 'natural' things in a world that is unnatural, demonized and…
— Jürgen Moltmann
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There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each person.
— Bryant H. McGill
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The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.
— Natalie Angier
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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can…
— Wallace Stegner
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Science is...a powerful way, indeed - to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective...in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for…
— Francis Collins
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Humankind's greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world.
— Jonathon Porritt
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A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own…
— Janine Benyus
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The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of…
— William Hazlitt
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