Quotes of: Naturalist Keyword

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.

Phillip E. Johnson

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

Mikhail Bakunin

Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.

Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God

If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.

Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say: fish in the sea, birds ...

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

I don't mind if other people call me an atheist, but I call myself a naturalist. Atheism doesn't tell you much about what I do believe in; the term naturalist opens up the discussion better.

Greg Graffin

Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of .

Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature, in the canny words of the Scotch theologue, 'is not as natural as it looks.

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of us. These were great naturalists; people I would admire for their knowledge of natural science given the tim...

Greg Graffin

I bill myself as a naturalist because if you say you're a naturalist, it gives people a conversation point to talk about what you actually do believe in, instead of when you say you're an atheist, and it's really just a statement of what you don't be...

Greg Graffin

What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the 'Batman' trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen...

David S. Goyer

This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is . . . the supreme epitome of the reaching out.

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd.

Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds.

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns the valley or the mountain: but to a naturalist who is reading in the face of the rocks the annals...

James Hutton

Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad dreams, or lie awake while the meteors whisper greenly overhead. But nowhere in all space or on a thousand worlds will there be...

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

Must the interest of life wane for us all as the progress of knowledge curtails the playground of imagination? No doubt it must in some measure, but there is another cause. I believe that in these days we have too many occupations, too many interests...

A Naturalist On The Prowl

If 'dead' matter has reared up this curious landscape of fiddling crickets, song sparrows, and wondering men, it must be plain even to the most devoted materialists that the matter of which he speaks contains amazing, if not dreadful, powers, and may...

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings gener...

The Naturalist on the River Amazons