Quotes of: Natural-beauty Keyword

If you fall in love let her be a beauty; if you should steal, let it be a camel.

Lebanese

What is word for good together living? Nobody shits in the well?" I laughed. "Civilization?" He nodded, splaying his fingers: amusement. "Yes," he said. "Speaking with hands is civilization." "But smiling is natural," I protested. "Everyone smiles." ...

The Wise Man's Fear

Lefebvre summarises this march of clock-time through society and nature (1991: 95–6). He argues that the lived time experienced in and through nature has gradually disappeared. Time is no longer something that is visible and inscribed within space....

Life

It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessar...

The Federalist Papers

If a supernatural being is to be exempt from natural law, it cannot possess specific, determinate characteristics. These attributes would impose limits and these limits would restrict the capacities of this supernatural being. In this case, a superna...

Atheism: The Case Against God

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

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

What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?

Cease and Desist

He was just beautiful. She'd never known a man could be beautiful, but he definitely was.

Dark Desire

It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always hurt.

The Dream Thieves

She was the most beautiful creature on Earth - her hair said so in that language only hair can speak.

Daytripper

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Everything Beautiful Began After

Life's most beautiful and inspiring moments occur at 3am, just prowling, looking for nothing but always finding something.

Evasion

...it must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul...

A Familiar Rain