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Nature Quotes by Bill McKibben
- We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.
- TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons,…
- The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet it is toward…
- The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written of wilderness, of…
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle