Quotes of: Natural-world Keyword

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

Guy Pearce

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.

Hjalmar Branting

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.

Howard Lindsay

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Joseph Addison

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

Joyce Meyer

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

Livy

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Margaret Mead

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

People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially scientists. They may be smart, but most don't understand the heart ...

Yume

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