Quotes of: Good-nature Keyword

Technique should be taught, not as an end in itself, but as something related to individual expression, as a means toward an end. One cannot separate technique from expression. There is only expression.

The Natural Way to Draw

The question is not whether or not change and challenge are going to happen. They are. The question is, when they do happen, how are we going to choose to look at them, contextualize them, and navigate them?

The Nature of Things - Navigating Everyday Life with Grace

But dogmatism—or the inclination "to identify the goal of our thinking with the point at which we have become tired of thinking"—is so natural to man that it is not likely to be a preserve of the past. [Citing Lessing's January 9, 1771 letter to ...

Natural Right and History

Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in rude homespun.

On the Nature of things

...women have done strange things; they are a far greater puzzle to the student of human nature than the sterner, less complex sex has ever been.

The Old Man in the Corner

When we are lonely we not only react more intensely to the negatives; we also experience less of a soothing uplift from the positives.

Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization.

The Lemon Table

Death is the privilege of human nature And life without it were not worth our taking Thither the poor, the unfortunate, and Mourner Fly for relief & lay their burdens down.

Monstrous Beauty

- You get more misanthropic every day. - I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wider and deeper.

Straight Man

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers

Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a 'sound mind in a sound body'.

Sophie's World

A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.

The Pursuit of God

My voice has expanded. It's unfurled in directions I didn't know it could go. And, in some ways, it isn't even what I thought it was.

Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World

If free enterprise becomes a proselytizing holy cause, it will be a sign that its workability and advantages have ceased to be self-evident.

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Embracing your true self radiates a natural beauty that cannot be diluted or ignored. Confident, powerful, untamable, badass you!

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

...returning to nature has been a dream present in the minds of every generation since mankind first left nature.

The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness

The revelation is this: don't wait for some revelation. We make our own luck.

The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

Alter any event, ever so slightly and without apparent importance at the time, and evolution cascades into radically different channel.

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

With infinite wisdom and care your life is constantly sustained because Nature flows through you.

The World Peace University Field Guide to Connecting With Nature