Janine Benyus Nature Quotations
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Nature Quotes from:
- All Nature Quotes
- Henry David Thoreau
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- John Muir
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Richard Louv
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Charles Dickens
- William Wordsworth
- Aristotle
- William Shakespeare
- Francis Bacon
- Aldo Leopold
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Alexander Pope
- Blaise Pascal
- John Burroughs
- Rachel Carson
- Wendell Berry
- Charles Darwin
- Albert Einstein
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Thinking Quotes
For a long time we have thought we were better than the living world, and now some of us tend to think we are worse, that everything we touch turns to soot. But neither perspective is healthy. We have to remember how it feels to have equal standing in the world, to be "between the mountain and the ant . . . part and parcel of creations," as the Iroquois traditionalist Oren Lyons says.
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New Year Quotes
If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a scant fifteen minutes ago, and all of recorded history has blinked by in the last sixty seconds. Luckily for us, our planet-mates--the fantastic meshwork of plants, animals, and microbes--have been patiently perfecting their wares since March, an incredible 3.8 billion years since the first bacteria. ...After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival.
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Writing Quotes
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own version of knowledge, we have been unreceptive to the wisdom of the natural world. To tune in again, to have the "spontaneous environmental rapport" that characterized our ancestors, will take doing something that is perfectly delightful: reimmersing ourselves in the natural world.
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Our World Quotes
For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details of our world. Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination, our language, our song and dance, our sense of the divine.