We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
Society, like nature, is one body, really.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
Nature can do more than physicians.
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
I'm very naturally happy, quirky and positive.
Nature did not make me willowy.
I believe it is in the world's interest to develop environments that fully engage women and leverage their natural talents.
Fulfilled desires, like pleasures (even of the intrinsic kind), are states of achievement rather than default states. For instance, one has to work at satiating oneself, while hunger comes naturally. After one has eaten or taken liquid, bowel and bla...
Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to ...
Humans are often credited with having real foresight, in distinction to the rest of biology which does not. For example, Dawkins compares the 'blind watchmaker' of natural selection with the real human one. 'A true watchmaker has foresight: he design...
Nature is only terrible or squalid to those who do not understand her, and when misunderstanding has upset her balance. She is imbued above all with the power of love; by love she can after all be conquered, but in no other way. That has not been our...
Nature offers us a thousand simple pleasers- Plays of light and color, fragrance in the air, the sun's warmth on skin and muscle, the audible rhythm of life's stir and push- for the price of merely paying attention. What joy! But how unwilling or una...
We can act to deal with the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami, but the disaster was only faintly political in the economics and indifference...the relief will be very political, in who gives how much (Bush offering 15 million, then 35 millio...
Nature is subtle and complex.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.
Be like the flower, content with its nature.
God is as real as mind and the mind is as real as nature.
Nature is cheaper than therapy.
