Natural World Quotes - Page 7

• To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity in this natural world and advocating the methods of reason, science, and democracy.

  Corliss Lamont

  Philosophy, Humanity, Democracy

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• Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Spiritual, Self

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.30, Discovery House

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• To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.

  Gary Steiner

  World, Ethical, Natural

  Gary Steiner (2012). “Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship”, p.122, Columbia University Press

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• I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.

  Sylvia Earle

  Hero, Doe, World

  Twitter post from Feb 4, 2018

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• The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

  David Attenborough

  Men, Thinking, Trying

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• I think that's necessary in photography. We try to simplify the chaos that's out there - and that's true of the natural world as well as the mad-made world. Clearly, it's easier in the mad-made world because it has already been structured.

  Bruce Barnbaum

  Photography, Thinking, Mad

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• Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

  David Attenborough

  World, Natural, Crucial

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• Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Facts, Needs

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

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• The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

  Edward Abbey

  Soul, Ruins, World

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• The natural world is a gift that we have the obligation to treasure and use carefully. It is our moral responsibility to protect it from damage, and to pass it on to our heirs in good condition. To do less is to dishonor the Giver and the gift.

  Frederick Victor Grey Wymark

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Use

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• People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

  David Attenborough

  Beautiful, People, Important

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• As an engineer, I understood that the natural world operated according to fixed laws. Through my studies, I came to realize that there were, likewise, laws that govern human wellbeing. It seemed to me that these laws are fundamental not only to the wellbeing of societies, but also to the miniature societies of organizations. Indeed, that is what we found when we began to apply these principles systematically at Koch Industries. Through our observation of how they could create prosperity in an organization, I began to systematize my beliefs into Market-Based Management.

  Charles Koch

  Law, Organization, Principles

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• Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Life, Science, Doom And Gloom

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• Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.

  Francis Collins

  World, Want, Way

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.

  Edward Said

  Historical Knowledge, Data, Purpose

  Edward W. Said (2015). “Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World”, p.240, Vintage

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• The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.

  Paulo Coelho

  God, Wise, Spiritual

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• ... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

  Michael Pollan

  Profound, Mind, Culture

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.

  James Allen

  Simple, Law, World

  James Allen (2010). “As You Think: Second Edition”, p.42, New World Library

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• I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natural world that is a new thing under the sun.

  Wendell Berry

  Believe, Ignorance, Weakness

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”, p.114, Counterpoint Press

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• Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.

  Derrick Jensen

  Eight, Important, Needs

  Derrick Jensen (2011). “Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization”, p.6, Seven Stories Press

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• Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

  Michael Crichton

  Discovery, World, Natural

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• The future of life on earth depends on our ability to take action. Many individuals are doing what they can, but real success can only come if there's a change in our societies and our economics and in our politics. I've been lucky in my lifetime to see some of the greatest spectacles that the natural world has to offer. Surely we have a responsibility to leave for future generations a planet that is healthy, inhabitable by all species

  David Attenborough

  Real, Future, Responsibility

  "State of the Planet". Documentary, www.imdb.com. (2000 - ).

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• Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world

  Satish Kumar

  Nature, Mean, Knowing

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• I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

  E. O. Wilson

  Thinking, People, Doubt

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• I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

  Alice Walker

  People, World, Culture

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2005.

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