Natural World Quotes

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

Love, Thinking, Doubt

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

Great, Natural, Curiosity

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

Love, Culture, Natural

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

May, Through, Meaning

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

Beautiful, Important, Wonderful

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.
David Attenborough

Touch, Natural, Crucial

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

Far, Natural, Seem

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

Life, Beauty, Greatest

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

Life, Experience, Living

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

God, Human, Jesus

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, Understand, Beginning

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

Life, Science, Yourself

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

Change, Home, Food

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

Lost, Natural, Goodness

Scientists tend to build a reputation on refuting the theories of those who have gone before. Yet, whatever we hypothesize, observe, measure or record about the natural world, it leaves more unanswered questions.
Robert Winston

Before, Whatever, Reputation

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.
Paul Nurse

Life, Good, Health

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.
Paul Nurse

Science, Natural, Interest

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 Rowell

Mind, Mean, Philosophy

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 Rowell

Spiritual, Emotional, Feeling

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.
Jim Fowler

Public, Natural, Welfare

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

Snow, Universe, Lives

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 Rowell

Able, Show, High

Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.
Jim Fowler

Around, Point, Almost

Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.
Peter Garrett

Natural, Senses, Convey

We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.
Bruce Jackson

Trying, Action, Three

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

Spiritual, Long, Everyone

No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Earth, Natural, Force

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

Best, Powerful, Struggle

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

Religion, Nature, Become

By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.
Johannes Stark

Great, Forward, Single

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