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  • The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives them a sense of pride in their own civilization because of the prestige that science fhas in the present day world. It is furthermore a testament to the way Islam was able to cultivate various sciences extensively without becoming alienated from the Islamic world view and without creating a science whose application would destroy the world of nature and the harmony that must exist between man and the natural environment.

    Islamic   Pride   Men  
  • Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

    Business Week, June 18, 1990.
  • Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by Tom Thomson and his colleagues. The concept of this painting grew out of a number of forays into Algonquin over the years. From its conception I intended Algonquin to be a subtle tribute to Tom Thomson. But I also wanted it to be a response to the natural beauty that so typifies the grandeur of Ontario’s first provincial park.

  • We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.

    "If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 2013.
  • We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.

    Life   Attitude   Law  
  • Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

    Nature   Men   Lakes  
  • If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

    "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.
  • Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

    Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.425, Delphi Classics
  • In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

    Paul Brooks (1971). “The pursuit of wilderness”
  • There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

    Theodore Roosevelt (1955). “Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist”
  • Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

    Nature   Creative   Mind  
    "Hans Hofmann". Book by Cynthia Goodman, p. 103, 1986.
  • The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

    Nature   Men   Garden  
  • Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.

    barry commoner (1966). “science and survival”
  • If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

  • It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

    "Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.
  • The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

    Dirty   Men   Rivers  
  • What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

    Nature   Growth   Habitat  
  • In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

    "The Wisdom of Wilderness". Life magazine, December 22, 1967.
  • We are living as if we had three planets' worth of resources to live with rather than just one. We need to cut by about two-thirds our ecological footprint. For that we need one planet farming as well as one planet living - one planet farming which minimises the impact on the environment of food production and consumption, and which maximises its contribution to renewal of the natural environment

    Cutting   Impact   Two  
  • And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

    Skins   Body   Kind  
  • Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

    Nature   Acceptance   Men  
  • The Congress, the Administration and the public all share a profound commitment to the rescue of our natural environment, and the preservation of the Earth as a place both habitable by and hospitable to man.

    "Be Watchful for our Wellsprings and Ourselves" by Jonah C. Steinberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2016.
  • When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face

    Dream   Nature   Bird  
    John Drinkwater (1919). “Poems, 1908-1919”
  • Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

  • If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature

  • Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

    Life   Strength   Beauty  
    John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.814, Library of America
  • In terms of making TV drama, not everything has to make sense. In cinema, you usually strive for reality and a natural environment, but in TV, it's more acceptable to do something crazy and break with naturalism.

    Crazy   Drama   Reality  
    Source: www.indiewire.com
  • In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or matrix wherein meaning occurs and proliferates. In the absence of writing, we find ourselves situated in the field of discourse as we are embedded in the natural landscape; indeed, the two matrices are not separable. We can no more stabilize the language and render its meanings determinate than we can freeze all motion and metamorphosis within the land.

    Writing   Land   Two  
  • Trees are your best antiques

    Nature   Tree   Antiques  
    Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.257
  • When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.

    Play   Voice   Use  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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