Natural Quotes

Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.

Much that is natural, to the will must yield. Men manufacture both machine and soul, And use what they imperfectly control To dare a future from the taken routes.

The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.

The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude.

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.

I'm a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.

Vietnam is absolutely breathtaking. I've never been to that part of the world before and it is an area of such natural beauty.

The arrival of Ade Akinbiyi gave everyone a lift. He's a natural born goalscorer.

I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.

Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is that it's not natural.

Demonstration of individual talent involves originality and it is easy to destroy natural talent.

In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

The European Union's enlargement is part of the natural process of integration and globalisation that is underway in the world today.

As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the sinister energy of our country.

One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.

There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about it.

In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order.

Fate is a manifestation of natural causes. That's it. It's not a conscious entity. It has no plan.

You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.

A natural-born photographer, with hypo in my blood.

The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary.

For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend.

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.

I want to retreat back to living off the land and just being in nature, experiencing life in the most pure, natural way possible.

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.

I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.

Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things

The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection, which selects exclusively for the good of each organic being.

The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.

We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

When we're able to put most of our energy into developing our natural talents, extraordinary room for growth exists

It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.