Quotes of: Natural-ability Keyword

It was the cool gray dawn, and there was a delicious sense of repose and peace in the deep pervading calm and silence of the woods. Not a leaf stirred; not a sound obtruded upon great Nature's meditation [...] Gradually the cool dim gray of the morni...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn that compared to many of the other species, we weren't important at all except for the damage we do. We do not rule the natural world, despite our cons...

The Hidden Life of Deer: Lessons from the Natural World

A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we are convinced that Nature is as cruel as the Bible; so that, if the God...

Ingersoll the Magnificent

Born of antimodern sentiment, the summer camp was ultimately a modern phenomenon, a "therapeutic space" as much dependent on the city, the factory, and "progress" to define its parameters as on that intangible but much lauded entity called nature. In...

The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55

The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like death, after which we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably won’t matter if we try too hard, are awkward so...

A Natural History of the Senses

We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can be a religion, a political party, a ball club. Why not also Nature? I feel a strong identity with the world of living things. I ...

One Man's Owl

Every death even the cruelest death drowns in the total indifference of Nature Nature herself would watch unmoved if we destroyed the entire human race I hate Nature this passionless spectator this unbreakable iceberg-face that can bear everything th...

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

The idea of decimation as a lottery converts the new iconography of the Burgess Shale into a radical view about the pathways of life and the nature of history. ... May our poor and improbable species find joy in its new-found fragility and good fortu...

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Our immune system is evolving through trials of use in fighting illnesses and the bombardment of our modern world toxins and that this evolution not only engages the strengthening of the body and it’s T-Cell use but also our emotional intelligence ...

What's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective of the Intelligence of Human Nature and Gut Instinct

There is a big difference between living in a society that hunts whales and living in one that views them. Nature is being reduced to precious demonstrations for entertainment and education, something far less natural than hunting. Are we headed for ...

Mark Kurlansky

A mysterious ability, a broken promise, a life changed forever...

The Dream Jumper's Promise

...what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...

A Familiar Rain

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

Amy Winehouse

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

Todd Haynes

Success by one’s efforts is the achievement gained through ability, not through deception.

Johnny Fracture

Not all can believe anything they want to, because not all have the ability to believe.

Master of Stupidity

Happiness is not the absence of problems; it's the ability to deal with them.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Trust in yourself, your ability, and your struggles, but not in your appetite.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

I want to raise awareness for platform shoes’ ability to raise awareness.


Sleepwalking is restercise

I shrug. I'm an excellent shrugger. It's rivaled only by my ability to nod.

The Sea of Tranquility

Don't kill the Genius in you by doubting your abilities to create impact in the world.

Psychic Gang