Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.
The true champions of a nation's freedom are those who reject the limitations of stereotypes and affirm the rich diversity of human nature to be found.
Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren’t being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.
How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.
I am not nor have I ever been a 'wild-eyed' charismatic, but rather an 'empowered evangelical' (Nathan)". ~R. Alan Woods [2006]
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. And now and then it blazes forth in veiled but hot anger.
Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.
As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.
If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.
Certainly there is life and there is death, but even in death, if we look closely enough, we will find grace.
Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.
More than anything, I like just being there while he works, doing what he knows to do, in his own place.
If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you.
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me
Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.
Just like your body naturally responds positively to some foods, your mind naturally responds positively to some thoughts.
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.
The only purpose of our lives consists in waking each other up and being there for each other.
Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.
