Natural World Quotes - Page 6

• The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.

  Eric Pianka

  Real, Technology, Men

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• When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  World, Blind, Natural

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• [The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Years, Water

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• The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Real, Understanding, Might

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.76, Macmillan

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• Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Fighting, Buddhism

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.23, Random House

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• The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. It is related to the outburst of violence in human society. To save the natural world today means to save what is human in humanity.

  Raisa Gorbacheva

  Peace, Mean, Soul

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• A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own version of knowledge, we have been unreceptive to the wisdom of the natural world. To tune in again, to have the "spontaneous environmental rapport" that characterized our ancestors, will take doing something that is perfectly delightful: reimmersing ourselves in the natural world.

  Janine Benyus

  Nature, Writing, Animal

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• The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Loss, Evil

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

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• Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Past, Rivers, Water

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• Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called "natural world." Once you get past the megamouth sharks, naked mole rats, and spotted hyenas, then the basilisks, dragons, and cuckoos just don't seem that unreasonable. Unpleasant, yes, but unreasonable? Not really.

  Mira Grant

  Taken, Past, Thinking

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• No other life forms know they are alive, and neither do they know they will die. This is our curse alone. Without this hex upon our heads, we would never have withdrawn as far as we have from the natural—so far and for such a time that it is a relief to say what we have been trying with our all not to say: We have long since been denizens of the natural world. Everywhere around us are natural habitats, but within us is the shiver of startling and dreadful things. Simply put: We are not from here. If we vanished tomorrow, no organism on this planet would miss us. Nothing in nature needs us.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Long, Missing, Trying

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• Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Men

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• Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would they spread accusations with no basis? Why would they refuse to correct their arguments once they had been shown to be incorrect? And why did the press continue to quote them, year after year, even as their claims were shown, one after another, to be false?

  Naomi Oreskes

  Years, World, Argument

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• Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Thinking, Long

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• At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale. Economic freedom - not democracy, and not ecological stewardship - is the defining metaphor of the WTO and its central goal is humanity's mastery of the natural world through its total commodification.

  Maude Barlow

  Heart, Air, Water

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• The idea of regularly acknowledging our indebtedness to the natural world and giving thanks for the many gifts we receive from it, or considering other species to be our close "relations" which many indigenous peoples still do, couldn't be more alien to most of us.

  Charlie Cook

  Nature, Ideas, Giving

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• Today's gardens have become far more than things of beauty. And today's generation is fast finding out that backyards can be an extremely resourceful and powerful tool in not just providing food for the family but also a brilliant way of connecting children with the natural world.

  Jamie Durie

  Nature, Children, Powerful

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• Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.

  Manly Hall

  Men, Thinking, Law Of Attraction

  Manly Palmer Hall (2005). “Secret Teachings of All Ages”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural world. If historians could not quote, they would deem it a disastrous impediment to the communication of knowledge about the past. A luxury for physicists, quotation is a necessity for historians, indispensable to historiography.

  J. H. Hexter

  Communication, Knowledge, Science

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• Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

  Dan Harmon

  World, Littles, Needs

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• Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.

  Gary Snyder

  Home, World, Natural

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.42, Counterpoint Press

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• The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  World, Wonder, Natural

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• As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.

  David Attenborough

  Way, World, Evolution

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and
  preserve it.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, World, Enough

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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• A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

  Carl Sagan

  Religion, Generations, World

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.347, Ballantine Books

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