Quotes of: Natural-disaster Keyword

The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit i...

Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

Vairâgya or renunciation is the turning point in all the various Yogas. The Karmi (worker) renounces the fruits of his work. The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love. The Yogi renounces his experiences, b...

The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: v. 3

People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially scientists. They may be smart, but most don't understand the heart ...

Yume

He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mastered the true nature of fate does not labor over what knowledge cannot change.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Who will bear witness to these small islands and oases of wildness as land is divided and sold to become strip malls, housing developments,and parking lots? What happens to the natural history here? We must bear witness.

Dancing With Herons: Bearing Witness to Local Natural History

Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact...

Beatdom #11: The Nature Issue

This new heavenly birth is the catalyst behind the transformation in character found in those who are true believers in Jesus. Our physical nature still exists but our thoughts, decisions, and affections are now enabled to desire heavenly things whil...

The Sifted Generation

Evil is termed as sin because it has the power to attract the mind. It acts upon our mind and heart to do what nature desires, even when such acts are prohibited by the laws of society. We feel guilty doing things that nature has designed as perfectl...

The Secret Red Book of Leadership

The blessing of the omnivore is that he can eat a great many different things in nature. The curse of the omnivore is that when it comes to figuring out which of those things are safe to eat, he's pretty much on his own.

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

Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated nature. Demosthenes took unbounded pains with his voice, and Cicero, who was naturally weak, made a long journey into Greece to cor...

Charles H. Spurgeon

Men are creatures of invention and are usually determined not to accept no for an answer.

Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended

Because human nature never changes.

Ender's Shadow

God schedules a birthday, not man.

Husband-Coached Childbirth: The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Virginia Woolf

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

William Ernest Henley

Naturalness onstage is just as much an artifice as naturalism in the novel

Levels of Life

The business and method of mysticism is love.

Mysticism: The Nature And Development Of Spiritual Consciousness

It is only by choice that our true nature is revealed.

The Whispers of the Fallen

As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.

Troy Brown

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

All of these red carpet events may seem natural for you journalists, but it doesn't feel natural for actors.

Toby Jones