Quotes of: Natural-progression Keyword

There is simply no way our nation can progress if its women population is left behind.

Pratibha Patil

The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit i...

Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

Vairâgya or renunciation is the turning point in all the various Yogas. The Karmi (worker) renounces the fruits of his work. The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love. The Yogi renounces his experiences, b...

The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: v. 3

People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially scientists. They may be smart, but most don't understand the heart ...

Yume

He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mastered the true nature of fate does not labor over what knowledge cannot change.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Who will bear witness to these small islands and oases of wildness as land is divided and sold to become strip malls, housing developments,and parking lots? What happens to the natural history here? We must bear witness.

Dancing With Herons: Bearing Witness to Local Natural History

Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact...

Beatdom #11: The Nature Issue

This new heavenly birth is the catalyst behind the transformation in character found in those who are true believers in Jesus. Our physical nature still exists but our thoughts, decisions, and affections are now enabled to desire heavenly things whil...

The Sifted Generation

Evil is termed as sin because it has the power to attract the mind. It acts upon our mind and heart to do what nature desires, even when such acts are prohibited by the laws of society. We feel guilty doing things that nature has designed as perfectl...

The Secret Red Book of Leadership

The blessing of the omnivore is that he can eat a great many different things in nature. The curse of the omnivore is that when it comes to figuring out which of those things are safe to eat, he's pretty much on his own.

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

Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated nature. Demosthenes took unbounded pains with his voice, and Cicero, who was naturally weak, made a long journey into Greece to cor...

Charles H. Spurgeon

The Nevernever is dying, human. It grows smaller and smaller every decade. Too much progress, too much technology. Mortals are losing their faith in anything but science. Even the children of man are consumed by progress. They sneer at the old storie...

The Iron King

Progress in evil was quick and easy; Apollyon was not a chap who hid himself and he gave every assistance in his power. The growth in goodness was so slow, at times so flat, so dull, and like the White Queen one had to run so fast to stay where one w...

The Rosemary Tree

Jerusalem was capital of southern Israel, known then as Judah. Isn't it true that there's always a rivalry between north and south? North and South Korea, North and South Vietnam, Northern and Southern Ireland, Yankees and Rebels, uptown and downtown...

Skinny Legs and All

The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of perpetual Growth - with a capital G. 'Progress' in our nation has for too long been confused with 'Growth'; I see the two as different, almost incompati...

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Men are creatures of invention and are usually determined not to accept no for an answer.

Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended

Because human nature never changes.

Ender's Shadow

God schedules a birthday, not man.

Husband-Coached Childbirth: The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Virginia Woolf

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

William Ernest Henley

Naturalness onstage is just as much an artifice as naturalism in the novel

Levels of Life