Our Mastery Quotes
- Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing… — Friedrich Engels
- With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary… — Frederick Soddy
- Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been… — Rachel Carson
- It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters… — Robin McKinley
- The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves. — Rachel Carson
- We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. — Clarence Day
- We are challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves. — Rachel Carson