Animal Quote by Ursula Goodenough

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet…

— Ann Druyan

“Nature" is another name for the miracles that are so commonplace in our lives that we take for granted and have grown used to…

— Shalom Arush

The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment one attends…

— C. S. Lewis

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

— Raymond Williams

“how the foragers completely reshaped the ecology of our planet long before the first agricultural village was built. The wandering bands of storytelling Sapiens…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting existence with…

— Michael Leunig

“Human beings have always been an unfinished species, a story in the middle, a succession of families, tribes, and societies in transition to new…

— Tony Hiss

A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the…

— Suzy Kassem

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

— John James Audubon

I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in…

— Delia Sherman

I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures.

— Karen Russell