Natural Quotes

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.

If we want to sum up the theory of evolution by natural selection in two words, which have great relevance for all societies and businesses, we should simply remember: diversity works.

As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.

Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying.

Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas.

I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.

Remember your natural affection for all of creation.

Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.

Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.

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

The scientific facts indicate that all the temperature changes observed in the last 100 years were largely natural changes and were not caused by carbon dioxide produced in human activities.

There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.

My style is the paparazzi approach which is spontaneous, unrehearsed, off-guard. The beauty I'm after is inherent, more natural. Genuine emotions, real emotions, that's what I look for.

We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the water that is all around us to behave itself.

In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.

Real Understanding manifests itself as spontaneous natural and simple action, free of the depressing process of choice, pure without indecisions of any type.

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.

If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting because they have no choice because of natural disaster.

I never really thought about getting married - it just kind of happened. It seemed natural, the right thing to do. It was kind of a celebration of the time.

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.

I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.

But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.

We can teach children about natural consequences and cause and effect of their relationships which is really a mirror of what happens in nature.

Conservation is key to preserving many of the worlds natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.

Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.

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

One of the mistakes we'll make because we're human beings is to believe that your vision is a fact. That's the natural optimism of human beings.

Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.

I defy any newcomer not to believe his or her publicity at the very beginning. It's only natural. At least it was for me.

As long as you focus on your strengths and remain natural, then you come off natural [in your work].

Sundance felt like a natural fit. I love coming here, and I do think that this festival suits my films rather than most of the festivals I've been to. I'm not going to Cannes, you know.

While she was no radical, no natural breaker of rules, no seeker of the bold statement, she was in her own serene way uncaring of convention and others' opinions.

Just keep doing 'you', and being who you are and doing what feels natural to you.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared.

James was truly an unknown quantity. He was really, physically drained in the spring and he got dinged in the fall. We brought him along slowly, but he has a great future. He's a natural receiver.