Sentence examples for ignored nature from inspiring English sources

"While economists ignored nature," McNeill says, "ecologists pretended humankind did not exist".

Because the natural capital concept is anthropocentric, Dr. Daily sometimes is asked whether quantifying ecosystem services runs the risk of ignoring nature's intrinsic worth or overlooking difficult-to-measure aspects of the natural world, like aesthetic or spiritual benefits.

"It's getting harder to ignore nature," Keith den Hollander, the thirty-eight-year-old chairman of the Christian Coalition of Michigan, told me.

He says that because economic calculations often ignore nature, the results can lead to the destruction of the very ecosystems upon which the economy is based.

We can't just sit around and ignore nature as we lose precious animals and habitats.

When we ignore nature's rules, she begins to suffer at our hands...and we, at hers.

Despite their lack of valued presence, Spring continues unfettered by our doomed attempts to ignore nature's genius.

If we choose to ignore nature's pathways, if we treat the landscape as a disposable thing, then we can have our dystopia.

Under a sky pregnant with stars, his laser pointer stroking constellations and planets as he named them, astronaut Story Musgrave told his audience, "This is the first time in history that humans are taking most of our information from 'content' developed by other humans, and almost completely ignoring nature.

We know that if we extract resources at a rate beyond the level of their replenishment -- ignoring nature's vital role in producing the food, the water, the oil, gas and minerals, the fibers in our clothing, the materials of our houses and the medicines for our health that are so essential to our lives -- our commons will collapse.

We suffer the indignities to which we expose other animals and in the end we all lose when we ignore nature and act as if we're the only animals who count, that we are exceptional and better and can do whatever we want because we can.