Nature Quotes - Page 51

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.

Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature as a correspondence, that is, a coming into congruence of pre-existing images of the human psyche with external objects and their behaviour. Modern man, of course, unlike Plato , looks on the pre-existent original images also as not invariable, but as relative to the development of a conscious point of view, so that the word "dialectic" which Plato is fond of using may be applied to the process of development of human knowledge.

Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.

When a strong wind blows, the clouds vanish and blue sky appears. Similarly, when the powerful wisdom that understand the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear.

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed that the people who are completely out of touch with nature are the most afraid of death.

I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need.

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Nature tells every secret once.

Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.

How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has a brighter green... the flowers are more fragrant... and the sun, moon, and stars all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us.

Human nature is a work in progress.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.