We are all struck with humility before these forces of nature that are beyond human scale.

For the resources of nature and men s devices are just as fertile and productive as they were.

The devastating effects of these natural disasters are directly related to the manner in which humankind interacts with nature.

That first one is humans versus nature we've won, there's no more gain. Human population.

Finally, as a scientist and as a person and now, as part of the TED community, I feel that I have better tools to go out to trees, to go out to forests, to go out to nature, to make new discoveries about nature and about humans' place in nature wherever we are and whomever you are.

The assaults of nature do not distinguish between the rich and the poor or the developed or less developed, in dealing devastating blows to human beings and infrastructure.

In humans, we actually developed the front part of the neocortex called the anterior part of the neocortex. And nature did a little trick.

We weren't the only ones to tackle this subject, but the photographs that Brian and Randy created are among the best to capture both the human and natural devastation of overfishing.

Certainly, 10,000 years ago, the civilization's beginning, the human portion was less than one tenth of one percent. Let's look at it now.

Suddenly, we humans, a recently arrived species no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature, have grown in population, technology and intelligence to a position of terrible power.

In other words, this apparent fact of nature the overwhelming genetic similarity of human and ape is a fact constructed from culture.

Though Locke believed natural rights were derived from divinity since humans were creations of God, his ideas were important in the development of the modern notion of rights.

While continuing to highlight humankind s shared modernity and African origins, we must also begin to accept and understand the emerging patchwork nature of our biological history.

Nauru

Nature

La Nature.

Guns don't kill people. People kill people.

And I think nature wants to express itself in the sense that we are nature, humans are of the universe.

The lesson from Chernobyl is that if nature is to thrive, it must be given space from us. The primary causes behind declining global biodiversity include habitat loss and fragmentation as a result of human activity.

And it's led to a view of human nature that we're rational individuals who respond in straightforward ways to incentives, and it's led to ways of seeing the world where people try to use the assumptions of physics to measure how human behavior is.

Learning about the natural world is one thing learning from the natural world that's the switch.

That is why the link to governance and institutions at Rio 20 is just as important as the transition to a green economy markets are human constructs that require rules and institutions to guide not only their direction, but also their boundaries.

Humans and soaring birds have found nature to be generous in providing replenishable energy. Sailplanes have flown over 1,000 miles, and the altitude record is over 50,000 feet.

And so here we looked to nature.

Mike's Nature trick

This one is Albert Einstein. Hi, Al! And anyway, he said, nature conformable to herself personifying nature as a female.

For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?

We took our clues from mother nature.

Nature is my greatest inspiration.

And you see that in nature.

Janine Benyus shares nature's designs

Even Mother Nature has played along.

World Conservation Union

The World Conservation Union

So I'm going to show you the results of a very large scale simulation of what we think the universe might be like, using, essentially, some of the play principles and some of the design principles that, you know, humans have labored so hard to pick up, but apparently nature knew how to do at the beginning.

Human security

Hybrid Humans

Angela Belcher Using nature to grow batteries

Nature always keeps a perfect balance.

Is technology diametrically opposed to nature?

As a reindeer herder you are very dependent on nature

The heterocycle is found in nature.

(a) To obtain knowledge of the physical nature of asteroids.

Nature and man have lived in harmony.