Best 1347 quotes in «natural quotes» category

Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature....Ultimately, the Darwinian theory of evolution is no more nor less than the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century.

Nudity is natural but not until a person accepts and loves who they are.

Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.

Observe how gently but surely the natural world renews itself daily.

Obviously when I'm put in a situation where there is a lot of attention on me, it's this weird dichotomy - I like it, because I feel like I'm a natural born performer. But I do feel the most vulnerable.

Of course, right away I got more interested in the far-out jazz than the traditional jazz, so I quickly was turned onto the John Zorn scene and all the wild stuff coming out of New York and Europe. Improvising is a pretty natural thing for me.

Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.

One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.

one must find one's natural home, not try to construct it.

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged.

One thing I think I've always felt about being in nature is that it's a very natural taste.

Only the development of his inner powers can offset the dangers inherent in man's losing control of the tremendous natural forces at his disposal and becoming the victim of his own achievements.

On the basis of both values and interests, the natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship.

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

Open yourself to the truth, then trust in your natural responses, and everything will fall into place.

Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.

Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love.

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.

Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.

Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.

Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Over the years, we have witnessed massive changes and degradation to Egypt's natural heritage. It's shocking how one generation's decisions about natural resources is affecting the present and all future generations of Egyptians.

Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.

Peace of heart is the natural outcome of purity of heart.

Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.

People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances.

People say, "You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous". Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.

People say fish is good for a diet. But fish should never be cooked in butter. Fish should be cooked in its natural oils - Texaco, Mobil, Exxon .

Performing is great, but you are exposed to all this extra stuff that you don't have to deal with when you stop. I'm getting used to it now, but it's kind of just the fallout. It's really weird. It's not a natural situation to be in. It sounds like moaning, because I know that's what I'm supposed to do, and I'm not moaning.

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

Philosophical questions and modes of thought just seem natural to me. They mesh with the way my mind works.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

Planning is as natural to the process of success as its absence is to the process of failure.