Natural World Quotes - Page 9

• I just would like to say that over more than a quarter-century as a scientist and a believer, I find absolutely nothing in conflict between agreeing with Richard [Dawkins] in practically all of his conclusions about the natural world, and also saying that I am still able to accept and embrace the possibility that there are answers that science isn't able to provide about the natural world - the questions about why instead of the questions about how. I'm interested in the whys.

  Richard Dawkins

  Able, Answers, World

  Source: inters.org

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• Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those who believe that humans are part of the natural world. If it were not true, would be a miracle that my granddaughter reflexively identified some elements of the blooming buzzing confusion as language-related and went on to acquire capacities of the kind that you and I are now exercising, while her pet kitten (chimp, songbird, bee...), presented with exactly the same data, could not take the first step, let alone the later ones.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Exercise, Data

  Source: libcom.org

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• Everybody can make choices that will make peace with the natural world.

  Sylvia Earle

  Choices, World, Natural

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I detest violence. I have a tremendous respect not only for human life but also for the animal life that I have to live with, and I believe that our destiny as human beings is to become nature-conscious as well as self-conscious, living in loving relationship and in balance and in harmony, not only with one another, but with the entire natural world.

  Murray Bookchin

  Believe, Destiny, Animal

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• Kaz's wilder work captures the great beauty of the human heart and the natural world.

  Joan Halifax

  Heart, World, Natural

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• My goal is not to shove information into your head. It's to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don't have to tell a child to explore the backyard.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Children, Goal, Curiosity

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• It's time to reconnect to the natural world for the sake of the animals, and our collective conscience. Because without spiritual health there can be no physical health.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Spiritual, Animal, World

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• Surfing is sensual. It's a real-time engagement with the forces of nature, which happen to be echoes of the past (which after all, is all a wave really is). Briefly we defy gravity and ride the energy of storms from elsewhere. We are intensely alone as we do it and yet completely swallowed by something larger that enforces a sense of perspective and connectedness to the natural world. It's an experience we yearn to repeat so we go searching for it again and again and we spend years sitting in the water waiting for these radiating lines to come in across the event horizon.

  Tim Winton

  Real, Past, Years

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

  C.P. Snow

  Two, World, Natural

  C. P. Snow, Stefan Collini (2012). “The Two Cultures”, p.67, Cambridge University Press

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• The ultimate design is little different from the natural world.

  Kenji Ekuan

  Design, Different, World

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• After a week of the contained chaos that is my job, I need some solitary running time. On Sundays, I can unwind and reconnect with the natural world.

  Linda Jones

  Running, Jobs, Sunday

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• I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.

  Imtiaz Ali

  Age, World, Married

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• The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

  Bill Nye

  World, Facts, Natural

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• I'll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders. We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.

  Bill Nye

  Discovery, Years, Research And Development

  Bill Nye (2014). “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”, p.4, St. Martin's Press

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• One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious,of many things we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dog, Horse, Eye

  William Butler Yeats (2017). “The Cutting of an Agate”, p.9, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas and ideals ... and silliness.

  Bill Watterson

  Animal, Ideas, Imagination

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• I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

  Mackenzie Crook

  Issues, Environmental, World

  "Goodbye cruel Slough". Interview with Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2004.

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• The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

  Jay Griffiths

  Loss, Silence, Mind

  "Fifty years on, the silence of Rachel Carson's spring consumes us" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.

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• My interest in wildlife began early and I don't know how early because it's the only thing I've ever been interested in. I've always had a certain curiosity, a certain wonder about the natural world. I like to be outdoors.

  George Schaller

  Nature, Curiosity, World

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• Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to imagine. To simplify the environment as we have done with agriculture is to destroy the complex interrelationships that hold the natural world together. Reducing the diversity of life, we narrow our options for the future and render our own survival more precarious.

  Cary Fowler

  Loss, Agriculture, Diversity

  Cary Fowler, Patrick R. Mooney (1990). “Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity”, p.9, University of Arizona Press

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• In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.

  George Monbiot

  People, Despair, World

  "For more wonder, rewild the world". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2013.

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• A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself necessitates a borderlessness between inner and outer worlds. At times we still feel a return to that unified state. T.S. Eliot’s designation of our return is ‘through the unknown remembered gate.'

  John Zerzan

  Oneness, Survival, Return

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• Emerging at the other end, we will not be the same as we were; we will have become more humble, more connected to the natural world, fitter, leaner, more skilled and, ultimately, wiser.

  Rob Hopkins

  Humble, World, Natural

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• The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.

  Richard Louv

  Real, Smart, Leader

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• The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest in the visitor with the growth of collections that was associated with empire and middle-class affluence. Attendance at museums was as much associated with moral improvement as with explanation of the human or natural world.

  Richard Fortey

  Intelligent, Class, Museums

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