#natural world

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#beings #better #enhances #good #harnessed

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#awoke #curiosity #early #i #i think

You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

#been #describe #dominated #equations #exact

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues. ↗

— Mackenzie Crook

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And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#also #became #equilibrium #even #large

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#enough #i #love #most #natural

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial. ↗

— David Attenborough

#crucial #natural #natural world #touch #world

No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#been #conquered #earth #ever #force

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#beings #constant #human #human beings #i

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#american #cars #come #completely #computers