Change Quote by William Cowper

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

This process, this method necessary to man's survival and prosperity upon the earth, has often been derided as unduly or exclusively "materialistic." But it…

— Murray Rothbard

“We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth's immense future, and can realise more and more of them on condition that we increase our…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity... imagines. Man is only…

— Anton Webern

Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the…

— Thomas Jefferson

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the…

— Johannes Kepler

So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ...…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

— George A. Smith

Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the higher mammalia…

— Charles Lyell

The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without control, into the most distant parts of…

— David Hume