Quotes of: Mother-nature Keyword

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases. From the love of splendour, from the indulgences of luxury, and from his fondness for amusement he has familiar...

Vaccination Against Smallpox

All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in nature. No scientific discourse (whether natural science or social science) simply discloses to us the facts of reality to which theology must submit...

Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

Lady Clio’s father claimed her pale silvery hair was her greatest asset…or perhaps his greatest asset, considering he had the duty to see her wed to some poor unsuspecting fool. ... According to the Church, the color of a woman’s hair bespoke h...

Wonderful

Nature, ... in order to carry out the marvelous operations [that occur] in animals and plants has been pleased to construct their organized bodies with a very large number of machines, which are of necessity made up of extremely minute parts so shape...

Marcello Malpighi

Trust and condemnation work hand in hand for both work on the concept of experience, of knowing it, observing it, realizing it, understanding it and finally accepting it in either of the two categories for the root remains the same 'Expectation'. Exp...

Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

It is under all circumstances an advantage to be in full possession of one's personality, otherwise the repressed elements will only crop up as a hindrance elsewhere, not just at some unimportant point, but at the very spot where we are most sensitiv...

C.G. Jung

If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the sorrow and the sorrow purify the genius? Together, will they not be like a cut diamond for which language is only the wax on whi...

Charlotte Bronte

One of my greatest difficulties in consenting to think of religion was that I thought I should have to give up my beautiful thoughts and my love for the things God has made. But I find that the happiness springing from all things not in themselves si...

George MacDonald

La nature est une oeuvre d'art, mais Dieu est le seul artiste qui existe, et l'homme n'est qu'un arrangeur de mauvais goût. La nature est belle, le sentiment s'exhale de tous ses pores; l'amour, la jeunesse, la beauté y sont impérissables. Mais l'...

George Sand

If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from boulder to boulder with even speed. You will then ...

John Muir

The whole concatenation of wild and artificial things, the natural ecosystem as modified by people over the centuries, the build environment layered over layers, the eerie mix of sounds and smells and glimpses neither natural nor crafted- all of it i...

John R. Stilgoe

Know ye not that there is here in this world a secret confraternity, which one might call the Company of Melancholiacs? That people there are who by natural constitution have been given a different nature and disposition than the others; that have a ...

Jens Peter Jacobsen

Reverend Clement Hedges: This was no man. Does a man have teeth the size of axe blades? Or ears like terrible tombstones? By tampering with nature, forcing vegetables to swell far beyond their natural size, we have brought a terrible judgement upon o...

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Auric Goldfinger: [Playing golf with Bond] Two holes to go. James Bond: Yes, and all's square. Auric Goldfinger: Then you have no objection to increasing the stakes? James Bond: No. What did you have in mind? Auric Goldfinger: Why, the bar of gold yo...

Goldfinger

I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing. : You're n...

Bill Blass

Challenges bring opportunity for growth.

Cutting the Soul: A journey into the mental illness of a teenager through the eyes of his mother

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

Decreation

When demons call you the Mother of Destruction, sh*t gets real." Muse.

Darkest Before Dawn

It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim

Delusions of Grandeur

I felt a smile on my face. "Thanks." "For what?" "Using my name instead of calling me a thing.

Dark Light of Mine