Best 1347 quotes in «natural quotes» category

We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.

We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.

We're human beings and the sun is the sun - how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can be bad for you.

We're really hard on ourselves and just need to relax more. A lot of guys really prefer you more natural. That's from experience.

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

We so easily forget that we came into life with nothing. Whatever we get soon seems our natural right, not a gift. And we forget the giver. Then our gaze shifts from what we have been given to what we dont have yet. . . .

We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair

Whatever is natural admits of variety.

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.

Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes.

What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness.

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters.

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

What is natural does not have to be a representation of something. I'm now working on a thing that is a reconstruction of a starry sky, and yet I'm making it without a given from nature. Someone who says he uses a theme from nature can be right, but also someone who says he uses nothing at all.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

What you ride and how you choose to ride is such a dynamic part of what this contest [ Ultra Natural] is built for.

When humans understand Tao, we understand the Tao within ourselves, not the true Tao. Tao doesn't belong to any one or any place; Tao is natural. It doesn't matter where you go, it will always be there. No one can claim ownership of it.

What you people call your natural resources our people call our relatives

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?

When do you feel most authentic? Authenticity feels so natural, so why isn't it easy?

When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity.

When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation very natural, because it allows me to address audiences directly.

When I got pregnant, I became very interested in natural products. You wonder what you're putting on your skin when you're carrying a child.

When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.

when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural

When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something.

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

When the views entertained in this volume on the origin of species, or when analogous views are generally admitted, we can dimly forsee that there will be a considerable revolution in natural history.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

When we transplant organs, we are enabling viruses to jump natural barriers between species.

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.

When you feel gratitude, you are the closest to the natural state you were born to live in.