The so - called mastery of nature in reality is nature's victory
over human ignorance and self - will.
Not exact matches
The cumulative results of
human degradation,
ignorance, greed and venality
over the ages have created a conspiracy of suffering which can only be undone by a new injection of wisdom and a new conspiracy of love - love of God and love of neighbour.
When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward
human freedom and dignity — the challenge of
ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep
over our souls.
How can anyone reject such a large part of
human experience
over the ages, without a huge
ignorance in their character or mind?
The point you are trying to make is so vital, so incredibly significant, that I would hope others could be encouraged to set their subjective discomforts aside, to put their
ignorance and / or denial of reality aside, and acknowledge the ominously looming,
human - driven predicament before humanity, the one apparently induced by the huge scale and skyrocketing growth rate of global
human over consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities now overspreading the surface of the wondrous planetary home upon which God has blessed us to live so well.
The consensus seems to be that climate denial is an organized attempt to disprove climate scientists, but I believe it is the result of
human traits; when faced with overwhelming evidence of future disasters
over which we have little or no control, our natural instinct will be
ignorance (which can literally be translated into stupidity) or shoot the messenger if he persists.