Quotes of: Natural-history Keyword

My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.

Alice Temperley

Enmerson's interest is in the workshop phase, the birthing stage of art, not the museum moment, the embalming phase. Poetry mimics Creation and is therefore sacred. More precisely, just as God may indeed be a verb (as Mary Daly insists), poetry is th...

First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Choke

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, to succeed is a natural consequence of Cosmic Ordering.

Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

But just as natural disaster brought out the best in some people, it brought out the worst in others.

Dust to Dust

Nature, though. Nature always welcomed him. She passed no judgements, didn’t care about right or wrong, guilt or innocence.

Echopraxia

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?

Ender's Game

Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

Elantris

Nature is not kind; it is not good. Do you really think nature cares about any individual living thing?

The First

Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. It’s only human nature

Brighton Belle

The failure to accept cancer as a systemic disease is one of the greatest failures in modern medicine.

Beating Cancer with Natural Medicine

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

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

The Book of Rites

As above in consciousness, so below in matter

The Book of Light: The Nature of God, the Structure of Consciousness and the Universe within You

I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'

Quincy Jones

The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.

Frans de Waal

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

Auguste Rodin

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

26.2: Marathon Stories

The choice is yours: trust the government or trust Mother Nature.

Athlete's Edge: Faster, Quicker, Stronger with Vitamin D

My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.

Anna and the French Kiss