Quotes of: Natural-life Keyword

...women have done strange things; they are a far greater puzzle to the student of human nature than the sterner, less complex sex has ever been.

The Old Man in the Corner

When we are lonely we not only react more intensely to the negatives; we also experience less of a soothing uplift from the positives.

Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization.

The Lemon Table

- You get more misanthropic every day. - I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wider and deeper.

Straight Man

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers

Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a 'sound mind in a sound body'.

Sophie's World

A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.

The Pursuit of God

My voice has expanded. It's unfurled in directions I didn't know it could go. And, in some ways, it isn't even what I thought it was.

Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World

If free enterprise becomes a proselytizing holy cause, it will be a sign that its workability and advantages have ceased to be self-evident.

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

...returning to nature has been a dream present in the minds of every generation since mankind first left nature.

The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness

The revelation is this: don't wait for some revelation. We make our own luck.

The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.

Who was Right: Ptolemy or Copernicus?

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

The Yoga of Eating: Transcending Diets and Dogma to Nourish the Natural Self

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.

A Theory of Justice

(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm that has enabled him to dispense with human nature.

Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

I'd ask [God] why he keeps trying to kill us all with disease, pestilence, and natural disasters. I'd ask why 99% of all species there ever were are now extinct -- if God works in mysterious ways, that way is mysteriously genocidal.

Neil deGrasse Tyson