Quotes of: Natural-man Keyword

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.

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

The Happy Medium: Awakening to Your Natural Intuition

Our planet is not fragile at its own timescale and we, pitiful latecomers in the last microsecond of our planetary year, are stewards of nothing in the long run.

Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

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

Your nature is not the problem. The problem is that you have become alienated from your nature -- from your power source.

Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength

The scarf could go on and on and on and on, and it could be the harlot-red banner of shame that wrapped him up and kept him warm when the nights grew lonely and cold.

Knitter in His Natural Habitat

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.

Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness

For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.

My Country And My People

Life sure is easier when you're rich." "And a natural born charmer. Don't forget that part." "How could I?" she retorted. "It's the only thing we have in common.

Natural Born Charmer

Technique should be taught, not as an end in itself, but as something related to individual expression, as a means toward an end. One cannot separate technique from expression. There is only expression.

The Natural Way to Draw

The question is not whether or not change and challenge are going to happen. They are. The question is, when they do happen, how are we going to choose to look at them, contextualize them, and navigate them?

The Nature of Things - Navigating Everyday Life with Grace

Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in rude homespun.

On the Nature of things

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

Death is the privilege of human nature And life without it were not worth our taking Thither the poor, the unfortunate, and Mourner Fly for relief & lay their burdens down.

Monstrous Beauty