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“We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.”

Ifs Nature Letting Go Myth Mastery Dominance

Author:Naomi Klein

“The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.”

Self Nature Environmental Substitutes Mastery Adequate Stewardship Self Mastery

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.”

Mean Doe Sometimes Science Nature Stage Tasks Mastery Comprehension

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.”

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Author:Rachel Carson

“We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.”

Way Firsts Facts Sound Nature Mastery

Book:This Simian World

Source: This Simian World

“Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor [William Harvey] to search out and study the secrets of Nature by way of experiment, can we hope to attain to a comprehension of 'the wisdom of the body and the understanding of the heart,' and thereby to the mastery of disease and pain, which will enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.”

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Author:Ernest Starling