Humans Quote by Michel Foucault

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

— Raymond Williams

“What tends to be forgotten, amid all the cheerleading for today’s technology, is that people in ancient times might have lacked our current theoretical…

— John Michael Greer

It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the…

— Anonymous

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

— Elbert Hubbard

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

— Thomas Carlyle

Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't know it.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before.”

— W.H. Auden

“I can discover nothing in any mere animal but an ingenious machine, to which nature has given senses to wind itself up, and guard,…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Linnaeus had it constantly in mind:'The closer we get to know the creatures around us, the clearer is the understanding we obtain of the…

— Sten Lindroth

Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is…

— Bill McKibben

The life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated;…

— John Burroughs