Quotes of: Natural-disaster Keyword

We repeatedly tell patients we are not in a hurry; there are no trains to catch and we don't care when the baby comes, only how! A doctor who is in a hurry does not belong in the field of obstetrics. As my chief pointed out, 'An obstetrician should h...

Husband-Coached Childbirth: The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth

Nature does not know of the challenges that face us. No matter what money difficulties we have, the sun will continue to shine. If it is health challenges we face, the grass will continue to grow. If a relationship is causing us grief, the ocean bree...

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

What an abundant harvest has been collected in autumn! The earth has now fulfilled its design for this year, and is going to repose for a short time. Thus nature is continually employed during the greatest part of the year: even in her rest she is ac...

Reflections on the Works of God in Nature and Providence for Every Day in the Year

The New Age movement, for all the validity of its protest and the value of some of its recommendations, is in truth a very old blind alley. There is a very long history to remind us of what happens when nature is our ultimate point of reference . . ....

Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth

At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the natural world amid which we live can gain on our hearts and minds? We go to Nature for comfort in trouble, and sympathy in jo...

The Woman in White

Man is not better treated by nature in his first start than her other works are; so long as he is unable to act for himself as an independent intelligence she acts for him. But the very fact that constitutes him a man is that he does not remain stati...

Friedrich Schiller

One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of has made its first halt before the study of the higher parts of the brain, the organ of the most complicated relations of the animal to the external world. And it s...

Ivan Pavlov

There has to be a first time for everything -- even our most natural habits.

Arabian

What I found, though, is that is you're not chasing one fantasy, you're chasing another.

Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

Where there is true variety, there will be inevitable 'inequality' - that is simply the result of human nature and the pluralism that defines us as a people.

THE CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.

The Call of the Wild

Humanity's greatest achievement will come when the happiness of some will no longer be the sadness of others.

Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended

If you are resolute to go, I will not stop you. But I hope I’m making the right decision.

Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended

Given the level of understanding and the fact that they believed already in a set of myths and superstitions, it was the easiest and fastest way to proceed.

Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended

Dying on your own terms, this is the greatest gift anyone can bestow upon a mortal man.

Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius

The Doctrine of the Mean

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

The Devil's Punchbowl

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.

The Golden Age of Science Fiction

An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen.

How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality