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The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn't based on fairy tales. It's based on observable facts in the human and in the biological history of the planet. I think that can be a source for comfort.

— Greg Graffin

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The world is a fascinating, difficult place, and in order to take full advantage of what the planet has to offer, we need to see and hear natural things.

— Bill O'Reilly

I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.

— Greg Graffin

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

— David Attenborough

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

— David Attenborough

I definitely read a lot of books on the psychology and mythology behind fairy tales because I think that's really fascinating and there's a lot to draw on there.

— Meghan Ory

I think that being in an extreme natural setting, and letting the natural world and what it's doing permeate your thoughts, is super-interesting and super-important.

— Lia Ices

Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.

— Greg Graffin

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.

— Edward Forbes

✗Opposing Perspectives

In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to the natural world is a metaphor.

— Derrick Jensen

I don't feel there's a difference between the real world and the fairy-tale world. They contain psychological truths and, I guess, projections of what the culture that tells them thinks about various things: men, women, aging, dying - the most basic aspects of being human.

— Helen Oyeyemi