Quotes of: Natural-history Keyword

The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

... human nature is much the same everywhere..." - Ms. Marple, The Thumb Mark of St. Peter, Pg. 69

The Thirteen Problems

Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.

Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love

The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the st...

Alvar Aalto

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

Aaron Siskind

There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.

Pat Metheny

There’s something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren’t.

Rachael Bermingham

I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody sitting in a room by a lamp is being lit by that lamp.

Roger Deakins

There are three laws that govern our universe - laws of physics, laws of nature, and spiritual laws. Like the laws of physics and nature, spiritual laws are just as precise as any mathematics equation.

Truman Massey

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

T. Boone Pickens

Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.

T. Boone Pickens

Human Nature is not a problem that can be fixed by rules and regulations. All solutions to the existing problems must be based on how people behave, not on how we think they should behave.

Kirk Chisholm

It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'

Lysander Spooner

People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.

Leo Tolstoy

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

Michael Behe

It is perfectly banal to establish a city in the middle of nature but it is perfectly extraordinary to establish nature in the middle of a city! Ordinary nations do the first, extraordinary nations do the second!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When you look at a natural beauty, it also looks at you! Since both the viewer and the viewed are miracles, two miracles look at each other in admiration!

Mehmet Murat ildan

How do we still believe that human nature is not evil when 60 years old men rape 3 years innocent girls?

M.F. Moonzajer

I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.

Norah Jones

Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.

Aimee Mullins

In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and the country entered the beginning stages of a quiet cultural revolution.

Lee Siegel