Perhaps summer's ephemeral nature is what inspires us to embrace the beach read. We tell ourselves that these twisted plots and wild characters are literary ice cream sundaes - extravagant treats that aren't as calorie-laden when we're wearing flip f...
Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.
The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.
I don't want to be a vampire. A lot of other people do and I think it's that dual nature - we have, you know, terrifying/intriguing.
I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I'm in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.
I have very strong Canadian connections. My daughter was born there a year and half ago. But because of the nature of my job, I need to be in countries where I can get the stories that I am looking at.
Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
Being a scientist is a special privilege: for it brings the opportunity to be creative, the passionate quest for answers to nature's most precious secrets, and the warm friendships of many valued colleagues.
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.
Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
The view of Earth is spectacular.
Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
