Natural Quotes

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power.

I don't worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordan: this is like spring break in the ghetto.

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet's natural resources.

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

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

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

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.

We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

It could appear that I'm some kind of natural genius, but it's just a million small lessons I've picked up over the years.

The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.

It's natural. I freestyle, meaning that I just rap. I might put words on paper, but I just put a beat on my rap, and go off the top of my head. It's something I've been able to do for a long time.

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

I take life for what it has to offer me. I don't get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?

To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.

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

Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.

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.

I don't have much of an imagination, but I have a mind bank of details, which I play with. It's how I daydream, so writing like that is natural for me.

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.

The natural order will emerge only if we let go of the fear of the disorder, we trust each other.

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

The adventure of the sun is the greatest natural drama by which we live.

A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.

She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.

I don't really understsand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.

A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.

When it comes to make-up, I usually go au natural most of the time and opt for a basic blush, lip gloss and kohl for a day look.