Quotes of: Study-nature Keyword

Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.

Nature Cure

Sometimes you can be so deeply wrapped up in a person that the only way to deal with it is to use cruelty to push them away.

The Nature of Cruelty

They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.

The Nature of Jade

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

On the Nature of Things: de Rerum Natura

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

A Natural History of the Senses

Just as we will never grasp the full meaning of God, we will also never grasp the full meaning of love.

The Nature of Love: A Theology

Listen to the murmur of water and you'll hear Mother Nature. Listen to the stillness beneath, and there you'll find God.

Look into the stillness

But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.

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

When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.

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

Wonder isn't about finding answers; it's about becoming more comfortable with questions.

Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World

The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

... human nature is much the same everywhere..." - Ms. Marple, The Thumb Mark of St. Peter, Pg. 69

The Thirteen Problems

Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.

Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love

The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the st...

Alvar Aalto

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

Aaron Siskind

There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.

Pat Metheny

There’s something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren’t.

Rachael Bermingham

I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody sitting in a room by a lamp is being lit by that lamp.

Roger Deakins

There are three laws that govern our universe - laws of physics, laws of nature, and spiritual laws. Like the laws of physics and nature, spiritual laws are just as precise as any mathematics equation.

Truman Massey

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

T. Boone Pickens

Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.

T. Boone Pickens