Quotes of: Unnatural Keyword

Grief dares us to love once more.

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.

The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Extinction, the irrevocable loss of a species, causes pain that can never find relief. It is an ache that will pass from generation to generation for the rest of human history.

The Unnatural History of the Sea

I could never just play in a pub in front of four people because I would have had all the press turn up. That way, you don't get to build up naturally. It makes the work feel unnatural, and puts a lot of unnatural pressure on you.

Dhani Harrison

Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the "invaluable mental power we call judgment.

Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past

The revelation is this: don't wait for some revelation. We make our own luck.

The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

Naomi Wolf

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

There was a certain amount of initial argumentation about the "meaning" of the balloon; this subsided, because we have learned not to insist on meanings, and they are rarely even looked for now, except in cases involving the simplest, safest phenomen...

Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts

It's hard to maintain a reputation for being grim and mysterious when you're accompanied by a brightly clad young thing, skipping merrily along at your side, holding your hand, and smiling sweetly on one and all.

The Unnatural Inquirer

How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of thumb is ‘Biology enables, Culture forbids.’ Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibiliti...

Unknown

In famine, a focus on women and children highlights biology: here is a mother who cannot feed her child, a breakdown in the natural order of life. This focus obscures who and what is to blame for the famine, politically and economically, and can lead...

Hunger: An Unnatural History

Texts are not "processed" as much as they are resurrected, and the image of reader and information processor or computer device, which often dominates current discussions of reading, seems less apt than another metaphor: the reader as necromancer.

Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past

Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Statism is an unnatural disaster.

Stefan Molyneux

Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year...

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

Marty Feldman

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

Ginger Rogers