#natural world

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#beings #constant #human #human beings #i

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

#curiosity #force #human #know #natural

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

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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

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

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#been #conquered #earth #ever #force

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

#comes #everyone #into #judged #lives

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

#fulfillment #great #natural #natural world #only

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

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

— David Attenborough

#amazement #beautiful #feel #important #must

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

#beings #better #enhances #good #harnessed