Quotes of: Natural-process Keyword

It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain climbers.

Life of Pi

The only purpose of our lives consists in waking each other up and being there for each other.

Moon Time: The Art of Harmony with Nature and Lunar Cycles

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

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

The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants.

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

Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again.

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

When someone close to you dies, you feel like you might die too. It takes some of the life out of you for a time.

Poems about Nature, Grief and Childhood

Evolution has taught them that pointless harm will ultimately harm themselves.

Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

Père Goriot

War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.

Perpetual Peace

What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don’t want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration.

Paper Souls

Foolish acts and bold adventures almost always appear, especially in the beginning, to be the absolute same thing.

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

All of life is a trust fall, and I'm awakening to the thrill, rather than the fear, of being suspended midair.

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

How can you stand to do it? The poor little mouse!" Grover shrugged. "It's nature," he said. "Nature likes the snake just as much as the mouse.

The Prophet of Yonwood

The recognition of oneself as a part of nature, and reliance on natural things, are disappearing for hundreds of millions of people who do not know that anything is being lost.

The Rebel Angels

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

Real Christianity

When I burp I’m not just pushing polluted air into the world—no, I’m espousing my belief on the true nature of politicians.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

Alison Gopnik

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

Donna Leon

It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

The Scarlet Letter