Quotes of: Natural-history Keyword

I believe that every one of us here tonight has as clear and vital a vocation as anyone in a religious order. We have the vocation of keeping alive Mr. Melcher's excitement in leading young people into an expanding imagination. Because of the very na...

Madeleine L'Engle

Though I myself am an atheist, I openly profess religion in the sense just mentioned, that is, a nature religion. I hate the idealism that wrenches man out of nature; I am not ashamed of my dependency on nature; I openly confess that the workings of ...

Lectures on the Essence of Religion

The Thames is liquid history.

John Burns

You cannot not know history.

Philip Johnson

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.

Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

Probably every lover imagines that his own love is pure, and that others love like beasts.

The Cruelest Month: Spring, Nature, and Love in Classical and Medieval Lyrics

‎"If the person you were fighting had any kind of wound,worry it and keep at it And the pain would be much more intense.It was the psychological angle and all.Once a cut was there,it was human nature to try to protect it from more harm.

Close

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind

It was a struggle to not fall in love with a man who was determined to be decent to her when what she sought was indulgence of her wanton nature. Her recently discovered, very frustrated wanton nature, damn him.

The Captive

Our true nature doesn’t need any explanation or demonstration to know itself. It just knows because knowing is part of its nature.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

Common Sense

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

The Casual Vacancy

Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.

Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.

Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt

When you trust your gut, follow your heart, and use your head, magic happens!

The Happy Medium: Awakening to Your Natural Intuition

Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.

Beatdom #11: The Nature Issue

But did what it does: Simply insisted. Simply burned through. Simply defied. The same shrugging, grinning continuance. The nature of life. The nature of the beast.

By Blood We Live

Simplicity is everywhere in nature, and meditation is a natural state. Meditation is a state of peaceful equilibrium, the fourth state of consciousness, and is always available to every single human being.

Baby Steps to Meditation

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone ...

Andy Goldsworthy

When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.

Abandon