“The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."” WorldHumansMeanActionDesireSocialCommunityNaturalHuman BeingsResponsibilityFocusMoralitySucceedSpeechMeaningfulSustainabilityInitialsNatural WorldPersonal ExperiencesAutonomousTerrainSocial Action Author:Vaclav Havel
“I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the natural world. Now he brings his abundant literary gifts to a debut novel set in a very real borderland in which human beings are themselves treated like animals. The Jaguar’s Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.” WorldShouldHumansChildrenLongRealCultureNaturalHuman BeingsAnimalFictionMoralNovelBraveBrilliantTreatedStorytellingPreservesComplexityHumankindNatural WorldNon FictionLamentVisceralDebutAmbivalentJaguars Author:John Burnham Schwartz
“Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the wrong ways. But it doesn't have to be this way. Maybe you don't want to deal with (marching), the permanent marker and poster board. But try something else. Carry someone's groceries. Chat with the custodian in your office building. Donate blood. Live in Rwanda for a year. Write letters to the Department of Buildings. Learn to knit. It is only going to get better from here on out.” WorldWayWantWritingTryingYearsHumansHas BeensNaturalHuman BeingsDealsBloodBuildingOfficeLettersPermanentGet BetterBoardsDepartmentEmbarrassedNatural WorldGroceriesPostersWrong WayDonateMarkersRwandaCustodiansOffice BuildingsDonating Blood Author:Sufjan Stevens
“At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote, lonely and desolate continent. A place where it's possible to see the splendours and immensities of the natural world at its most dramatic and, what's more, witness them almost exactly as they were, long, long before human beings ever arrived on the surface of this planet. Long may it remain so.” PeopleWorldHumansMayLongStillsNaturalHuman BeingsPlanetsOne DayLonelyRemainsSurfaceWitnessDramaticThirtyContinentsNatural WorldEverestDesolateImmensitySplendourAntarctica Author:David Attenborough
“Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways human beings understand the universe - through literature, theology, aesthetics, art or music.” WorldWayHumansArtUniverseLiteratureCausesNaturalHuman BeingsKnowingAtheismPositive AtheismTheologyNatural WorldAesthetics Author:Eugenie Scott
“Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.” ThinkingWorldHumansMayStillsUseNaturalHuman BeingsAnimalTechnologyAdvantageMachinesBoundsIntimacyEaseNatural WorldIntercourse Book:the zodiac arch Source: the zodiac arch
“In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of the human being, naked and facing the natural world, desperate to feel. I did not realize while reading Render how deeply I was handing everything over.” WorldFeelsHumansReadingRealizingNaturalHuman BeingsDrawsHungryNakedHeatDesperateMapsHauntingNatural WorldDew Author:Nikky Finney
“Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in numbers except our own wish. Since I first started making television programs, the population of the world has increased three times. That's an extraordinary notion. Can it increase four times? Can it increase five times? The Earth is a finite size. So a point will eventually come when we run out of food, when we run out of space and when we will have destroyed most of the natural world. So ought we to do something about it before that happens?” WorldFirstsHumansHappensRunningEarthThreeWishNaturalHuman BeingsSpaceNumbersFiveFourTelevisionOughtProgramIncreaseExtraordinaryNotionSizePopulationCleverFactorsDestroyedFiniteThree TimesNatural World Author:David Attenborough