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In wilderness, I sense the miracle of life, and behind it, our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Charles Lindbergh1902–1974“The Wisdom of Wilderness” in LIFE (22 December 1967)
- Science
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Nature (1836), Nature
- God
We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. … We have been wrong.
Wendell Berry1934–2026The Long-Legged House (1969), “A Native Hill”
We are not to tell Nature what she’s gotta be!
Richard Feynman1918–1988Lecture 1. “Photons: Corpuscles of Light” (1979) Sir Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures, University of Auckland.
- Science
We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983Presentation to U.S. Congressional Sub-Committee on World Game (1969)
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Nature (1836), Nature
Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature; it is a part of the interplay between nature and ourselves; it describes nature as exposed to our method of questioning.
Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Physics and Philosophy (1958)
- Science
Little flower — but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892“Flower in the Crannied Wall” (1869)
- God
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry1934–2026Part of an endorsement statement for The Dying of the Trees (1997) by Charles E. Little
- Politics
In nature there is nothing melancholy.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, ll. 13-22 (1798)
It seems to me, when I see nature, that I see it ready made, completely written — but then, try to do it!
Claude Monet1840–1926Letter to Frédéric Bazille (15 July 1864)
- Art
The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves).
Stephen Jay Gould1941–2002Bully for Brontosaurus (1991), Prologue, pp. 16–17
Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle.
Peter Kropotkin1842–1921Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902), Chapter I
Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 2: Butterflies and Superstrings, p. 14
- Science
Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it.
Wendell Berry1934–2026“Compromise, Hell!” Orion magazine (November/December 2004)