Material world may refer to:
- Nature, the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general
- Material World (TV series), a Canadian television sitcom in the 1990s
- Material World (radio programme), a BBC Radio 4 science programme
- Material World: A Global Family Portrait, a 1994 photo essay by Peter Menzel
Famous quotes containing the words material and/or world:
“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.”
—William Golding (b. 1911)