Quotes of: Natural-world Keyword

Smoking will probably kill me, but so will natural selection.

Carroll Bryant

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Blaise Pascal

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Denis Diderot

I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.

Ellsworth Kelly

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

John Keats

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Jack London

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Marianne Moore

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

Tacitus

It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

Tacitus

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Taylor Caldwell

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Werner Heisenberg

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

William H. Seward

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For the Common Good: Redirecting the economy toward community, the environment, and a sustainable future.

Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans create—be it product, communication or system—is a result of the process of making inspiration real. I believe in doing what works as circumstances change: q...

Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design

Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation process within and around us. Our estrangement from nat...

Reconnecting with Nature: Finding Wellness Through Rebuilding Your Bond with the Earth

As survivors and procreators, we unravel stories that at their root are not dissimilar from the habitual behaviors seen in nature. But as beings who know they will die we digress into episodes and epics that are altogether dissociated from the natura...

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race