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. . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large part religious and ethical. Environmentalism, in short, had become one version of nature religion in the lingering shadow of American transcendentalism. -- Catherine L. Albanese
Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology and everyday worship. This harmony is most evident in remote places like this, and I hope it does not loose its unique character in the ruthless urban advance. -- Ruskin Bond
Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion. -- Francis Herbert Hedge
One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature. -- Greg Graffin
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. -- Ambrose Bierce
It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different. -- John Shelby Spong
Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature. -- Youssef Ziedan
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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. -- Camille Paglia
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. -- Annie Besant
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature. -- Neil Young
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no! -- Taslima Nasrin
Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of war, and most Muslims don't understand the true nature of Islam. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it. -- James Anthony Froude
I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful. -- Michael Shermer
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude. -- Albert Camus
All too often, the word 'religion' has become identified with those promoting a frankly anti-scientific view of nature and of our place in the natural world. -- Kenneth R. Miller
In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion. -- Carol P. Christ
We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. -- Anthony Hopkins
I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy? -- Harriet Martineau
Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man. -- Victor Hugo
Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature -- Luther Burbank
That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature. -- Blaise Pascal
Herbalism is a religion of nature, representing a balance of head and heart. -- Michael Tierra
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. -- Luther Burbank
Magic and religion are ultimately experiential in nature and should be treated as such. -- Nevill Drury
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves. -- Swami Vivekananda
Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery. -- Pope Leo X
Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. -- Ambrose Bierce
Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature. -- Rene Dubos
In Islam religion and politics cannot be separated. Unlike other religions, Islam is political by its very nature. -- Ali Sina
The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts. -- Blaise Pascal
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That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life. -- Beatrice Webb
Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion. -- J. G. Holland
Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature. -- Ellen Glasgow
Set your face for religion being upright, the nature made by Allah in which He has created the human being. -- Louis Farrakhan
Some people think nature is their God. I'd like to apologize to all those people for pissing on their religion. -- Jarod Kintz
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature. -- Arundhati Roy
For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
Zen is influenced by Daoism, which is not so much a nature-religion in the animistic sense as a nature-philosophy in a cosmic sense. -- Quentin S. Crisp
The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion. -- R.J. Rushdoony
There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors. -- Laurence Sterne
If the nature of the world is revealed to man through religion, then gardens, as places for contemplation, should symbolise the perfection of nature. -- Tom Turner
Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving to keep sex free from emotion, duty, family--in other words, from society, religion, and procreative Mother Nature. -- Camille Paglia
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life. -- David Hume
What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure. -- Eric Hoffer
Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion. -- David Hume
There is religion in everything around us, - a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of Nature, which man would do well to imitate. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium. -- Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis
Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society. --
Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both. -- Linus Torvalds
The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart. -- Swami Vivekananda
The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him. -- Blaise Pascal
Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of -- Marianne Williamson
That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society. -- Swami Vivekananda
Given the religious nature and the emotional power of Leftist values, Jews and Christians on the Left often derive their values from the Left more than from their religion. -- Dennis Prager
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. -- James G. Frazer
Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Making the documentary was an extraordinary experience and it really hit home to me the quasi-religious nature of this anthropogenic global warming cause. These people really have found religion. -- Nick Minchin
The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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