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“If we have a hope of really understanding our place in nature and of carving out a place for ourselves that is sustainable, it's primarily because of the new level of communication. It used to be, 'What you don't have in your mind, you have on your shelf.' But now we have the Web.”

Ifs Mind Used Understanding Nature Levels Communication Used To Be Sustainability Shelves Carving

Author:Sylvia Earle

“There is something about nature out of control that touches a primal terror. We are used to believing that we're the masters of our domain, and that God has given us this earth to rule over. We need this illusion like a good night-light.”

Needs Believe Light Earth Used Night Given Nature Masters Illusion Terror Domain Primal Good Night Night Light

Book:Two Classic Volumes from Robert R. McCammon

Source: Two Classic Volumes from Robert R. McCammon

“I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.”

World Made Stills Together Beautiful Used Father Stars Nature Race Half Beauty Morning Creation Fields Plant Envy Contact Dawn Dwelling Eden

Book:Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada

Source: Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada

“I used to think that communing with nature was a healing, positive thing. Now, I think I'd like to commune with other things - like room service and temperature control.”

Thinking Used Nature Loss Rooms Healing Disaster Temperature Positive Things Communes Room Service

Book:Roseanne: my life as a woman

Source: Roseanne: my life as a woman

“Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.”

Men Mean Science Used Interest Nature Animal Interesting Half Taken Mountain Rivers Plant Clouds Productions Indifferent Most Interesting Other Half

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.”

Inspiration Used Nature Principles Building Manifestation Architect Domain God And Nature God Nature

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.”

Thinking Inspirational Wells Form Used Nature Results Healing Teens Nature Love

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.”

Book Facts Used Term Nature Environment Mystery Satisfied Charm Fairy Spells Describing Enchantment

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton