Natural Quotes

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!

I believe modeling is a combination of natural talent, the ability to adapt to different situations, hard work, and, most importantly, luck.

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.

Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.

Just as the waves can subside to reveal the stillness of the ocean's depths, so too is it possible to calm the turbulence of our mind to reveal its natural pristine clarity.

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.

... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.

Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.

Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.

The natural-born investor is a myth.

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural.

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

I have never said that people “should” engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.

A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.

Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.

We need to raise our voices a little more, even as they say to us, 'This is so uncharacteristic of you.' Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone.

Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts.

It's time to reconnect to the natural world for the sake of the animals, and our collective conscience. Because without spiritual health there can be no physical health.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and forest fires.

I adore Smashbox lip stains. I carry a natural color for daytime and a berry shade for going out at night.

There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war, you have more mistakes. That's the natural thing.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Atheism is based upon a materialist philosophy, which holds that nothing exists but natural phenomena. There are no supernatural forces or entities, nor can there be any. Nature simply exists.

NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom.

The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.

Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature.

The one natural gift I have is easy access. That's the only natural I gift I have at all. You have to have that, the third eye.

Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around.