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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
Me
Natural
World
Worth
Beauty
Living
Worth Living
Visual
Seems
Excitement
Makes
Greatest
Source
Intellectual
Interest
Much
Natural World
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
Natural
Problem
World
Kids
Fine
Born
About
Adult
Over
Feet
Always
Scientifically
Rocks
Jumping
Curious
China
Turning
Mud
Natural World
Illiterate
Playing
Two
Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.
Donald Trump, Jr.
Love
You
Natural
World
Master
Fall
Wild
Back
Way
Hunters
Hunting
Give
Environment
Along
Know
Forces
Makes
Fishing
Truly
Person
Contributing
Get
Often
Endure
Themselves
Natural World
Even
Why
Actually
Conservation
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
Relationship
You
Man
Science
Natural
Yourself
World
Think
Thinking
About
Tempted
Between
Come
Terms
How
Fit
Trying
Any
Natural World
Whole
Why
Here
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
World
Understanding
Only
Source
Curiosity
Fulfillment
Natural World
I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
E. O. Wilson
Love
Natural
People
World
Doubt
Thinking
Enough
Most
Short-Term
Natural World
Save
In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to the natural world is a metaphor.
Derrick Jensen
Natural
World
Listening
Books
Ways
Indigenous
Civilized
Emphasized
Between
Open-Minded
Most
Metaphor
Difference
Being
Natural World
Even
Fundamental
Fundamental Difference
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
Nature
Religion
Natural
World
Word
Become
Too
Our
Those
Frankly
Promoting
Identified
Often
Place
View
Natural World
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
Struggle
Natural
World
Secret
Secret Weapon
Weapon
Unravel
Powerful
Powerful Force
Perhaps
Know
Force
Curiosity
Human
Urge
Natural World
Workings
It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to imagine it recovering its health in our presence.
Alex Steffen
Health
Natural
World
Difficult
Our
More
Absence
Recovering
Natural World
Hard
Presence
Necessary
Imagine
I try not to invent; I try simply to translate the weird language of the natural world. And I'm not into absolute ownership of things.
Alice Oswald
Natural
World
Try
Language
Invent
Ownership
Absolute
Simply
Weird
Translate
Natural World
Things
I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
Alice Walker
Love
Culture
Natural
People
World
Enslaved
Out
Grew
Which
Natural World
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
Photography
Natural
World
Medium
Intuitive
Through
Observations
May
Intention
Which
Meaning
Natural World
Present
Spectators
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
Natural
Conflict
World
Three
Action
Define
Spheres
Entered
Darwin
Economic
Marx
Development
Ideas
Deal
Freud
Trying
Explain
Century
Natural World
Internal
Describe
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
David Attenborough
Beautiful
Natural
People
Wonderful
World
Amazing
Valuable
Important
Pleasure
Must
Feel
Amazement
Natural World
Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings. Instead, God formed the people of Israel from individual human beings already living in the natural world, calling them into a new historical identity.
David Novak
God
Natural
People
World
Living
Members
Individual
Individual Human
He
Instead
New
Identity
Calling
Israel
Historical
Did
Human
Human Beings
Formed
Them
Create
Created
Natural World
Beings
Even
Chose
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
Time
Natural
World
Somewhere
Animals
Own
Sense
Living
Our
Though
Collection
Madly
More
Between
Like
Ticking
Exists
Any
Means
Natural World
Watch
Zone
Zoo
The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
Edith Pearlman
Natural
World
Language
Prophetic
Bleak
Well
Devoted
Often
Natural World
Careful
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
Natural
People
World
Sierra
High
Able
Taking
Pictures
Climbed
Began
Yosemite
Experiencing
Explored
Natural World
Show
Show People
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
Natural
World
Mind
Philosophy
Photograph
Photographing
Some
Rather
Only
Directly
Part
Observer
Participant
Involved
Climbing
Mountain
Than
Mean
Body
Natural World
Even
Activities
The natural world is a source of inspiration.
Giles Deacon
Natural
World
Inspiration
Source
Natural World
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
Myself
Me
Age
Marriage
Natural
World
Young
Otherwise
Synthetic
Intrigued
Married
Because
Always
Got
Very
Young Age
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
Work
Natural
Writing
World
Style
Own
Thinking
Relations
Marks
Constant
See
About
My Own
Write
Human
Human Beings
Wordsworth
Natural World
Beings
Presence
The natural world is not indestructible.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
Natural
World
Indestructible
Natural World
Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.
Janine Benyus
Life
Nature
Natural
World
Only
Bottom
Builds
Up
Five
Natural World
Uses
Works
Multiple
Resilience
The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.
Jay Griffiths
Silence
Natural
World
Mind
Our
Silences
Something
Within
Loss
Losses
Human
Natural World
Human Mind
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