Quotes of: Natural-thing Keyword

It is clear that something is seriously lacking in the way we humans are going about things. But what is it that we lack? The fundamental problem, I believe, is that at every level we are giving too much attention to the external, material aspects of...

Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance and her sunlight, from before human cruelty or suffering. She overwhelms man by the contrast between divine beauty and social hideousness. She spares him nothing of her lov...

Ninety-Three

It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, becoming, death, and ressurection; the waters, plants, woman, fecundity, and immortality; the cosmic darkness, prenatal existence, and life after death...

The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

We speak often, and sentimentally, of being 'enchanted' by the natural world. But what if it's the other way around? What if we are enchanted, literally, by the human world we live in? That seems entirely more likely - that the consumer world amounts...

When the Wild Comes Leaping Up: Personal Encounters with Nature

Django: [showing the exterminator shop to Remy with the dead rats in the window] Take a good long look, Remy. This is what happens when a rat gets a little too comfortable around humans. The world we live in belongs to the enemy. We must live careful...

Ratatouille

Every little yielding to anxiety is a step away from the natural heart of man.

Japanese

The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest in the visitor with the growth of collections that was associated with empire and middle-class aff...

Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life Of The Natural History Museum

[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, ...

The Fresco

We repeatedly tell patients we are not in a hurry; there are no trains to catch and we don't care when the baby comes, only how! A doctor who is in a hurry does not belong in the field of obstetrics. As my chief pointed out, 'An obstetrician should h...

Husband-Coached Childbirth: The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth

Nature does not know of the challenges that face us. No matter what money difficulties we have, the sun will continue to shine. If it is health challenges we face, the grass will continue to grow. If a relationship is causing us grief, the ocean bree...

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

What an abundant harvest has been collected in autumn! The earth has now fulfilled its design for this year, and is going to repose for a short time. Thus nature is continually employed during the greatest part of the year: even in her rest she is ac...

Reflections on the Works of God in Nature and Providence for Every Day in the Year

The New Age movement, for all the validity of its protest and the value of some of its recommendations, is in truth a very old blind alley. There is a very long history to remind us of what happens when nature is our ultimate point of reference . . ....

Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth

At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the natural world amid which we live can gain on our hearts and minds? We go to Nature for comfort in trouble, and sympathy in jo...

The Woman in White

Man is not better treated by nature in his first start than her other works are; so long as he is unable to act for himself as an independent intelligence she acts for him. But the very fact that constitutes him a man is that he does not remain stati...

Friedrich Schiller

One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of has made its first halt before the study of the higher parts of the brain, the organ of the most complicated relations of the animal to the external world. And it s...

Ivan Pavlov

There has to be a first time for everything -- even our most natural habits.

Arabian

What I found, though, is that is you're not chasing one fantasy, you're chasing another.

Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

Where there is true variety, there will be inevitable 'inequality' - that is simply the result of human nature and the pluralism that defines us as a people.

THE CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.

The Call of the Wild

Humanity's greatest achievement will come when the happiness of some will no longer be the sadness of others.

Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended