#naturalist

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. ↗

— John Berger

#any #belongs #does #drawing #however

I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#approach #around #attention #capture #choose

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#animal life #beginning #beyond #forms #infinitely

No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ↗

— Richard Owen

#barnacles #darwin #devoted #more #mr

Fred prepared a board game he had created for the entire family to play. And they did. ↗

— J.M.K. Walkow

#family

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#nature

Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. ↗

— John Muir

#nature

You need help when you're starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with. ↗

— David Naughton

#hand #help #naturalistic #need #other

Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#important #naturalistic #particularly #philosophy #such

According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#closed #closed system #cosmic #effects #example