Natural World quotes:

Send

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. -- David Attenborough
Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it. -- Jewel
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators. -- Ansel Adams
The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness. -- Annie Lennox
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. -- David Attenborough
Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now. -- David Attenborough
...tis a dangerous thing to ingage the authority of Scripture in disputes about the Natural World, in opposition to Reason; lest Time, which brings all things to light, should discover that to be evidently false which we had made Scripture to assert. -- Thomas Burnet
Being in touch with the natural world is crucial. -- David Attenborough
Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking. -- Manly Hall
I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it. -- E. O. Wilson
I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. -- Alice Walker
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. -- Thomas Berry
I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world. -- Jon Krakauer
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. -- David Attenborough
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
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
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
In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world? -- Sakyong Mipham
The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience. -- Eric Kandel
Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it. -- David Suzuki
I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra -- Galen
And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large. -- Joan D. Vinge
Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space. -- Susan Orlean
There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds. -- Anne Nicol Gaylor
If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option. -- PZ Myers
Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world. -- Aaron Klug
The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life. -- Rachel Carson
Though not a natural world by any means, more like a collection of living dioramas, a zoo exists in its own time zone, somewhere between the seasonal sense of animals and our madly ticking watch time. -- Diane Ackerman
The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it. -- David Attenborough
The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community is to diminish our own existence. -- Thomas Berry
As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love. -- Richard Louv
The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are always turning over rocks, jumping with two feet into mud puddles and playing with the tablecloth and fine china. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator -- Galen
I want to challenge all of you as people of deep conscience, people who are environment stewards of the earth and oceans ... By changing what you eat, you will change the entire contract between the human species and the natural world. -- James Cameron
I first became aware of the delights of the natural world when my father, an entomologist, presented me with what looked like a twig. When it got up and walked, my delight was such that I wrote a poem, 'To a Walking Stick.' -- Jean Craighead George
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
What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world -- Galen
We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off. -- John Trudell
With our technologies--ones of incalcuable power: earth-restoring, planet preserving--we can rediscover an intimacy, a mutuality with the natural world, that is not primitive (though based in part on fear), but knowing. It might even be possible to relearn a life of awe. And inhabit the landscape without violation. With the least violation. -- Janet Kauffman
I don't want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it's not smart to bet against the power of science to figure out the natural world. It used to be, a thousand years ago, that if you wanted to explain why the moon moved through the sky, you needed to invoke God. -- Sean M. Carroll
Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't want to be dropped naked into a swamp. We want to tour Yosemite with our water bottles and G.P.S. devices. The natural world is a source of happiness and fulfillment, but only when prescribed in the right doses. -- Paul Bloom
The natural world is not indestructible. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
Women-the greatest natural resource in the world today. -- Edward Steichen
Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world -- Janine Benyus
Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world. -- Bill Mollison
Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always. -- Michael Crichton
I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues. -- Mackenzie Crook
The beauty of the natural world lies in the details. -- Natalie Angier
Humankind's greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world. -- Jonathon Porritt
The ultimate design is little different from the natural world. -- Kenji Ekuan
Observe how gently but surely the natural world renews itself daily. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
I think having pets helps sensitize people to the natural world. -- Glenn Close
Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world -- Roger Scruton
What's happening in the world is a natural course of events. -- Byron Katie
Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. -- George Herman
Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place. -- Gary Snyder
I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world. -- John Frusciante
Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world. -- Peter Garrett
The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States. -- T. Boone Pickens
As we each express our natural genius, we all elevate our world. -- Robin Sharma
All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas. -- Wallace Stevens
The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural. -- Matthew Tobin Anderson
Everybody can make choices that will make peace with the natural world. -- Sylvia Earle
Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource. -- Nicholas Negroponte
The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world. -- Anne Rice
It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world. -- Frans Lanting
Being a hippy was the most natural thing in the world to me. -- David Crosby
If you look at the natural world, really look at it, it's always magical. -- Theodora Goss
It's the greatest thing in the world, natural enthusiasm. You are nothing without it. -- Bill Shankly
There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan. -- Jim Fowler
Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance. -- Oswald Chambers
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world. -- Toru Takemitsu
Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival. -- Richard Louv
It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world. -- Banana Yoshimoto
The spiritual world is not unlike the natural world: only diversity will save it. -- Margot Adler
Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world. -- James Gustave Speth
The second coming was an event in the spiritual, and not in the natural world. -- John Humphrey Noyes
To care for the natural world is the most effective insurance policy we can have -- Phil Harding
Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment. -- John Bradshaw
We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power. -- Jane Goodall
Kaz's wilder work captures the great beauty of the human heart and the natural world. -- Joan Halifax
We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair -- Malcolm Gladwell
I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with. -- Robin Hobb
The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
--
According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings... -- Peter Singer
Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution -- David Attenborough
Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world. -- George Santayana
A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world. -- Paulo Coelho
Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. -- Albert Einstein
The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind. -- Jay Griffiths
The natural resources of the world do not belong to any person, organization, collective, or so-called nation. -- Bryant McGill
I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all. -- Bill Mollison
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. -- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
Trees ask us to examine how we live in the natural world, with one another, and intrapersonally. -- Greg Reitman
I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science. -- Paul Nurse
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. -- Edward Abbey
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare. -- Jim Fowler
I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them. -- David Mitchell
Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow. -- Paul Watson
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system. -- Derrick Jensen
No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force. -- Liberty Hyde Bailey
Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'. -- W. Somerset Maugham
A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening, -- Bernie Krause
If you are in doubt about what's balanced, look to the natural world. Animals know the right paths. -- F.T. McKinstry
True development must be in harmony with the needs of people and the rhythms of the natural world. -- Sulak Sivaraksa
Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world. -- James Buchanan
There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women. -- Marisha Pessl
Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world. -- Richard Louv
Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered. -- Albert Einstein
I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power. -- Julia Kent
The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it. -- C.P. Snow
I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas and ideals ... and silliness. -- Bill Watterson
The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe. -- Robert Solow
I believe it is in the world's interest to develop environments that fully engage women and leverage their natural talents. -- Weili Dai

Send