Quotes of: Natural-thing Keyword

My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

Philip Emeagwali

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

R. Buckminster Fuller

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature.

William Cavendish

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

Xun Zi

Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.

Aubrey McClendon

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

William Osler

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

Chelsea Clinton

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

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

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

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