Natural World Quotes - Page 15

• 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

  Sky, Sea, Amazing Life

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.

  Franklin Pierce

  Distance, Views, Political

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• What's important is that children have an opportunity to bond with the natural world, to learn to love it and feel comfortable in it, before being asked to heal its wounds.

  David Sobel

  Children, Opportunity, Important

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• The Lockean assumption that if we put our labor to it then it becomes our own is totally fallacious. We have to figure out how to leave things alone, and build an economic system that's not built on a linear model, but instead on a cyclical model, because that's the natural world - it's cyclical and not linear. That is going to take a lot of transformation.

  Winona LaDuke

  Environmental, World, Transformation

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• I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man.

  Jason Reeves

  Photography, Writing, Men

  Source: itcouldbemainstream.blogspot.com

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• Hopefully there will come a time when I have no words, when I can honor and hold that kind of stillness that I so need, crave, and desire in the natural world.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Honor, Desire, Needs

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• I think we have powerful role-models among us in the American West. Certainly the Hopis, a timeless civilization that understands sustainability and what that means about living in harmony, in tandem with the natural world. We have much to learn from them, and they will survive us, I feel certain about that.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Powerful, Mean, Thinking

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.

  Peter Scott

  Falling In Love, Reality, People

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• I think every pet lover has an appreciation for nature - I've never met an animal lover who didn't have some kind of connection to the natural world.

  Glenn Close

  Appreciation, Animal, Thinking

  "Glenn Close Talks Seafood, Swimming With Sharks And Saving The Planet". Interview with Katherine Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• 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

  Ocean, People, Challenges

  "James Cameron touts vegan diet during Nat Geo gala" by Michael d'Estries, www.mnn.com. June 17, 2013.

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• 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

  God, Atheist, Heart

  "“No gods” solstice display returns for 7th year to Illinois Capitol". ffrf.org. December 4, 2015.

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• One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 171

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