Natural Quotes

Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear from us, without resistance, our natural, undisputed rights.

I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a natural and unalienable right.

Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation.

What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and I’m trying to represent the feelings that I’m feeling as purely as possible

I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

Fear can be a natural ally, a homemade power source... Staying in the present, fear can only help you.

Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food.

Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago

In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world.

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the victims of wars and natural disasters.

There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle

Magic is the projection of natural energies to produce needed effects.

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.

You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you... happiness is your natural state.

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

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

Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world

Life sure is easier when you're rich." "And a natural born charmer. Don't forget that part." "How could I?" she retorted. "It's the only thing we have in common.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it.

The objective is not to "make your links appear natural"; the objective is that your links are natural.

I was never a natural. I got there in the end because I did believe that if you work hard enough, then you can achieve a lot.

The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.

Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees.

Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.

I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

Your body has natural healing capacities that nobody in the field of medicine can pretend ultimately to understand.

The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.

Natural gas is a bridge fuel. But it's not a bridge - it's a gangplank. It's either a bridge in space or a bridge in time. The bridge in time we don't need. We have renewable technology right now.

The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.

The sea has now changed from its natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.

I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

Research shows that the happiest people are those who use their natural talents to the utmost.