Quotes of: Naturalism Keyword

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

Steven Pinker

If nothing else, the act of reaching a milestone often serves to reveal a superstar's true nature.

Stephen Rodrick

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

Paul Nurse

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

William Hazlitt

Very bad things follow when we kid ourselves that we're naturally rational, rather than the more humbling truth: naturally emotional.

Robert Webb

Humans Do Artificial things But nature always hits Backs Naturally !!!

AkshayShinde

we always say that nature cannot be change, but we forget that change is the name of nature

Life

Thinking is human nature and the connection to spiritual dimensions

Vasilios Karpos

War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

Kate Adie

L'unité de l'homme primitif et de la nature est d'essence magique. L'homme ne se sépare vraiment de la nature qu'en la transformant par la technique et, la transformant, il la désacralise. Or l'emploi de la technique est subordonné à une organis...

Revolution of Everyday Life

Clancy comments that the subtleties of national character can impact the world stage by making espionage more difficult. Americans were quirky by nature, making the sorts of eccentric moves that had to be followed up on as potential espionage cues. R...

The Cardinal of the Kremlin

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher ...

The Concept of Nature: The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, 11/1919

Man’s conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature’s conquest of Man. Every victory we seemed to win has led us, step by step, to this conclusion. All Nature’s apparent reverses have been but tactical withdrawal...

The Abolition of Man

We are a biological species arising from Earth’s biosphere as one adapted species among many; and however splendid our languages and cultures, however rich and subtle our minds, however vast our creative powers, the mental process is the product of...

On Human Nature

The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, u...

Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present of the natural world: it has no memory of its previous actions, no plans for the...

In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life

...the magic was a tool, though a natural, mysterious tool. In its awareness of the magic, his human nature had desired to connect with it, to use it. The whisperings were the voice of his own awakening, not the seductive call of a dark power. Using ...

MetalMagic: Talisman

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the prese...

Nature and Walking

Human nature has its fatal weaknesses, but 'love' means embracing the whole of human nature, the bad within the good, the benign within the malicious, the beautiful within the tragic. 'Love' is the experience of this whole, its unfinished parts, incl...

Last Words from Montmartre

A natural person can achieve right diet because his instinct is in proper working order. He is satisfied with simple food; it is nutritious, tastes good, and is useful daily medicine. Food and the human spirit are united.

Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security

So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, howeve...

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