“People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and its insistence upon their holiness. But that delight-in, say, the final chapters of Job or the 104th Psalm-is far more useful to the cause of conservation than the undifferentiating abstractions of science... Reverence gives standing to creatures, and to our perception of them, just as the law gives standing to a citizen.” PeopleGivingJobsLawCausesAnimalModernCitizensCreaturesPerceptionStandingDestructionBlameFinalsIndividualityDelightVarietyHolinessReverenceChaptersConservationAbstractionInsistencePsalmsDestruction Of Nature Author:Wendell Berry
“It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs development as urgently as his muscles.” NeedsLawYoungTeachStudentsDevelopmentPerceptionColourMusclesEvidentDerivativesYoung Students Author:Walter J. Phillips
“All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man or from generation to generation, at least not permanently. It is the perception, the knowledge and understanding of them, their ideas in the Platonic sense, that are passed along. Everything social can have existence only through mentality.” MenMindArtIdeasLawSocialUnderstandingExistenceGenerationsCivilizationPerceptionMentalityTelephonesMachineryPlatonicGunpowderTextilesKnowledge And Understanding Author:Alfred L. Kroeber
“The sexist perception that violence by anyone against only women is anti-woman while violence by a woman against only men is just generic violence creates a political demand for laws that are even more protective of women.” MenLawPoliticalViolenceDemandPerceptionProtectiveSexistGeneric Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“apparent contradiction ... is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of apparent contradiction is due to our want of perception, since our knowledge of laws and causes is so small compared to their total sum.” WantMaySaidLawOpportunityCausesPerceptionDiscoveryDuesAbsenceContradictionNew DiscoveriesDiscovery In Science Book:The Venture of Rational Faith Source: The Venture of Rational Faith