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It is impossible to care for each other more or differently than we care for the earth.
Wendell Berry1934–2026The Unsettling of America (1977), Chapter Seven: The Body and the Earth
- Nature
Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person’s property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Metamorphoses (Transformations), Book VI, 349-351; translation by Michael Simpson
- Nature
Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.
Brian Coxborn 1968“The Large Hadron Collider will revolutionise how we understand the universe”, The Daily Telegraph (6 September 2008)
Anyone who thinks the Large Hadron Collider will destroy the world is a twat.
Brian Coxborn 1968Radio Times interview, Sept 8, 2008.
- Clever Jabs
There is no reason to be less moved by nature around us simply because it’s revealed to have more layers of complexity than we first observed.
Robert Sapolskyborn 1957Emperor Has No Clothes Award acceptance speech (2003)
- Nature
Most cooks when they are young tend to overwork their food to hide their lack of confidence and appreciation for Mother Nature. In time they learn that she is the true artist⁠—we’re just the cooks.
Marco Pierre Whiteborn 1961Marco Pierre White in Hell’s Kitchen (2008)
- Food
- Nature
I got Christianity at school and Stalinism at home. I think that was a very good preparation for being a scientist because I got used to the idea that at least half the people are completely wrong.
Geoffrey Hintonborn 1947Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks (2000), On his childhood.
- Comedy
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963To the Moon (1962)
- Motivation & Goals
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Faith
- Nature
I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
Emily Brontë1818–1848Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter IXIn context
- Nature
No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Chapter IVIn context
- Life & Death
It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Chapter VIn context
- Life & Death
Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot?
Bram Stoker1847–1912Dracula (1897), Chapter XIVIn context
- Knowledge
Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter IIn context
- Nature
- Thinking
O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies! not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter LXXIn context
- Nature
- Philosophy