Changed Quote by Diane Ackerman

“We as a species have not realized the most precious qualities with which nature has endowed us, the abilities that will enable us to…

— Ilchi Lee

Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of its positive…

— Edmund Bourne

“We are the first generations to grow up surrounded by evidence that our attempt to separate ourselves from ‘nature’ has been a grim failure,…

— Paul Kingsnorth

If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell…

— Janine Benyus

We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.

— Sylvia Earle

“Nature is monstrously unjust. There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.”

— Aldous Huxley

It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put…

— Sylvia Earle

I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we…

— Amory Lovins

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and…

— Gretel Ehrlich

“Change is nature’s way of offering us the opportunity to explore the parameters of our humanity and potential. Don’t fight it, embrace it. There…

— Steve Maraboli

“Yet what is inescapably different about today is that never in the history of human life have so many people been so threatened by…

— Jonathan A. Moo

Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown in population,…

— Paul MacCready