Quotes of: Natural-world Keyword

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization.

The Lemon Table

Death is the privilege of human nature And life without it were not worth our taking Thither the poor, the unfortunate, and Mourner Fly for relief & lay their burdens down.

Monstrous Beauty

- You get more misanthropic every day. - I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wider and deeper.

Straight Man

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers

A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

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

God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.

The Pursuit of God

If free enterprise becomes a proselytizing holy cause, it will be a sign that its workability and advantages have ceased to be self-evident.

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Embracing your true self radiates a natural beauty that cannot be diluted or ignored. Confident, powerful, untamable, badass you!

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

...returning to nature has been a dream present in the minds of every generation since mankind first left nature.

The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness

Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.

Who was Right: Ptolemy or Copernicus?

Alter any event, ever so slightly and without apparent importance at the time, and evolution cascades into radically different channel.

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life.

The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

The Yoga of Eating: Transcending Diets and Dogma to Nourish the Natural Self

It's either I have to be in the trees or in the ocean, otherwise I lose my mind. I have to get connected with nature, otherwise I don't feel very good. And that's what life's about, feeling good, so nature knows best for me.

Greg Cipes

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.

A Theory of Justice

It’s human nature to view life from our own reality. This causes serious problems when a rescue mission is being led by the senile or insane.

The Truth About Lies