Natural Quotes

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.

...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

It's more work to create poverty, disease and disharmony than it is to create health, harmony and abundance, because perfect health, harmony and abundance are the natural order of things.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on.

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

I'm kind of forced to get out of what might feel more natural and comfortable.

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

You get a bad result one week and it's a natural reaction to go out in the next game and put it behind you and do well.

Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.

Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment.

I would use going into nature to clear myself - trees and plants including having plants at your house is a wonderfully natural way to continuously clear yourself.

Asian girls are so natural and beautiful. I guess they don't like to wear make up

All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated.

The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.

Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.

I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share this opinion... Art's origins are natural.

Unlock your natural drives by doing what you enjoy.

Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.

I don't think the human effect [of climate change] is significant compared to the natural effect.

In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness.

Eating is a natural way to feel happy. Overeating isn't.

Few golfers are born with the natural talent for hitting the ball, but every player is blessed with the God-given ability to throw a club.

Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order.

The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.

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

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.

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

When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can.

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.

As your body deteriorates, your natural talents start to go a little bit. You have to bring in physical working out, building, taking protein and doing extra stuff.

Cranberries contain a massive amount of natural pectins. They will gel all on their own, which is why you can basically make cranberry sauce out of filling.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

Now the kids are portrayed as dirty when they talk to an agent, a shoe guy, some hanger-on. Well, it's only natural that people are circling them - there are millions of dollars involved.

The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment.

Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.

Natural fact is, I can't pay my taxes. Make me wanna holler and throw up on my hands.

Recent data and research supports the importance of natural climate variability and calls into question the conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of recent climate change.

Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.

Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.