Quotes of: Natural-world Keyword

How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.

The Infinite Sea

I am not nor have I ever been a 'wild-eyed' charismatic, but rather an 'empowered evangelical' (Nathan)". ~R. Alan Woods [2006]

John Wimber: Naturally Supernatural

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. And now and then it blazes forth in veiled but hot anger.

The Souls of Black Folk

Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.

The Science and Fine Art of Natural Hygiene

As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.

Second Helpings

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

Money, Possessions and Eternity

This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.

The Madness Underneath

Certainly there is life and there is death, but even in death, if we look closely enough, we will find grace.

The Nature of Things - Navigating Everyday Life with Grace

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'

More than anything, I like just being there while he works, doing what he knows to do, in his own place.

The Nature of Jade

If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you.

Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me

Nature

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.

Les Diaboliques

Just like your body naturally responds positively to some foods, your mind naturally responds positively to some thoughts.

The Love Mindset

It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain climbers.

Life of Pi

The only purpose of our lives consists in waking each other up and being there for each other.

Moon Time: The Art of Harmony with Nature and Lunar Cycles

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

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

The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants.

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

Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again.

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

When someone close to you dies, you feel like you might die too. It takes some of the life out of you for a time.

Poems about Nature, Grief and Childhood