Challenges Quote by Rachel Carson

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

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…

— Rachel Carson

People are at their best when they are challenged. If we don't challenge ourselves, nature has a way of giving us challenges anyway. There…

— Thomas Frey

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.

— Theodor Adorno

The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature.

— Peter Senge

Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.

— Mark Nepo

Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone…

— Friedrich Engels

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

— Don Marquis

Humans have occupied a position in nature that they should not. It is impossible for humans to conquer nature.

— Svetlana Alexievich

There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.

— Terry Pratchett

Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome.

— Rita Rudner

Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it

— John Locke