Quotes of: Natural-history Keyword

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

David Attenborough

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Graham Greene

That's human nature - the ups and downs.

Jami Gertz

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Marilyn Monroe

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

Peace Pilgrim

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

Robert Smithson

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Saint Augustine

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

Stacy Keach

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Swami Vivekananda

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Xun Zi

Your past history is NOT an excuse.

Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

My one regret was that I never photographed the bat before we drank it.

Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

The History Boys

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

The History of Freedom

There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.

A History of Genetics

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

The musician has the most brothers, and the dancer the most sisters.

HerStory: Fiction Honoring Women's History Month

Marriage, [...], the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

The History Man

To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.

Ideology and Rationality in the History of the Life Sciences