“The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature.”
Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
Context: The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. People who live in nature are not romantic about it at all. They may hold spiritual beliefs about the world around them, they may have a sense of the unity of nature or the aliveness of all things, but they still kill the animals and uproot the plants in order to eat, to live. If they don't, they will die.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of natur…" by Michael Crichton?
Michael Crichton 121
American author, screenwriter, film producer 1942–2008Related quotes
Deng Feng-Zhou
(1949) Chinese poet, Local history writer, Taoist Neidan academics and Environmentalist.
(zh-TW) 勢運天成一線牽，人生際遇係因緣；
悲歡散合平常待，事起非能任自旋。
"Destiny" (隨緣)
Source: Deng Feng-Zhou, "Deng Feng-Zhou Classical Chinese Poetry Anthology". Volume 6, Tainan, 2018: 86.
“Veda is Total Knowledge, and Veda is the nature of the Self, and bliss is the nature of the Self.”
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
(1917–2008) Inventor of Transcendental Meditation, musician
Context: And it’s completely not necessary for anyone to make mistake because everyone’s Self is Total Knowledge, Veda. Veda is Total Knowledge, and Veda is the nature of the Self, and bliss is the nature of the Self. And even in the outside world everyone wants to move in the direction of greater joy.
Ervin László
(1932) Hungarian musician and philosopher
Source: The systems view of the world (1996), p. 11.
John Theophilus Desaguliers
(1683–1744) French-born British natural philosopher and clergyman
Source: Course of Experimental Philosophy, 1745, p. v: Preface
Context: All the knowledge we have of nature depends upon facts; for without observations and experiments our natural philosophy would only be a science of terms and an unintelligible jargon. But then we must call in Geometry and Arithmetics, to our Assistance, unless we are willing to content ourselves with natural History and conjectural Philosophy. For, as many causes concur in the production of compound effects, we are liable to mistake the predominant cause, unless we can measure the quantity and the effect produced, compare them with, and distinguish them from, each other, to find out the adequate cause of each single effect, and what must be the result of their joint action.
Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985), p. 10
Sun Myung Moon
(1920–2012) Korean religious leader
Cheon Il Guk is the Ideal Heavenly Kingdom of Eternal Peace http://www.unification.net/2006/20060613_1.html (2006-06-13)
A Means for Furthering Peace (1905)
Source: My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
Context: A state of human life vaguely defined by the term "Universal Peace," while a result of cumulative effort through centuries past, might come into existence quickly, not unlike a crystal suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. But just as no effect can precede its cause, so this state can never be brought on by any pact between nations, however solemn. Experience is made before the law is formulated, both are related like cause and effect. So long as we are clearly conscious of the expectation, that peace is to result from such a parliamentary decision, so long have we a conclusive evidence that we are not fit for peace. Only then when we shall feel that such international meetings are mere formal procedures, unnecessary except in so far as they might serve to give definite expression to a common desire, will peace be assured.
To judge from current events we must be, as yet, very distant from that blissful goal. It is true that we are proceeding towards it rapidly. There are abundant signs of this progress everywhere. The race enmities and prejudices are decidedly waning.