Environmental Quote by Seyyed Hossein Nasr Download Open image “To be modern is to destroy nature.” — Seyyed Hossein Nasr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Environmental Inspirational Love Modern Nature
To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world -… — Marshall Berman Copy Share Image
“I am not averse to generalizing the notion of "modern" to designate a certain way of life, rather than making it purely a synonym… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“In the Islamic world itself also there is a great crisis in he modern established universities precisely because the systems from the West have… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Muhammad was the exemplar ruler, exemplar father, exemplar warrior, and once you have a family, you have contentions, you have problems, human problems, and… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Muhammad sets the model for being a good statesman. He also sets the model for being a good warrior, for chivalry, of nobility, of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“For anyone who understood the essence of modernism based on and originating in the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance, it was… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
In fact, the machine doesn't have the consciousness we have, the free will that we have, and to surrender one's free will, not in… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
In Islam, we believe that it is God himself who is the ultimate guide - Al Hadi - one of the names of God… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Without the withering criticism by nominalism, medieval Christian philosophy and theology would not have relinquished their claim to the role of knowledge in discovering… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The Islamic world is suffering not only because of external oppression but also because of the loss of its own dignity, of its own… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues. — Judith Rodin Copy Share Image
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Canada is the worst polluter in the world right now. There's absolutely no sign on a federal level that there's going to be any… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is natures red-light warning against the model of… — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
It is important to allow a broad debate on energy and climate. We must urgently explore realistic ways to address the different scientific, technical… — Lennart Bengtsson Copy Share Image
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented. — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
