Top 1200 Natural World Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The plundering for profit of the world's natural resources has threatened the very sustainability of the planet.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

You may do as you wish without fear of retribution. It may serve you, however, to be aware of consequences. Consequences are results. Natural outcomes. These are not at all the same as retributions, or punishments. Outcomes are simply that. They are what results from the natural application of natural laws. They are that which occurs, quite predictably, as a consequence of what has occurred.

Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in the world, not as necessary as air and water, perhaps, but as food and water. But we really do lead almost a monastic life, you know; to follow it you very often have to give up something.

Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards upon nature, and who in this way introduce morals into the natural world, in spite the fact that we are part of this world. We are products of nature, but nature has made us together with our power of altering the world, of foreseeing and of planning for the future, and of making far-reaching decisions for which we are morally responsible. Yet, responsibility, decisions, enter the world of nature only with us

I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.

Six years old, and I already knew that my natural home was the world inside the head.

Observe how gently but surely the natural world renews itself daily.

When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.

Today, natural gas now outstrips coal as the leading provider of electricity in America. If this is as big as people believe it is, natural gas will soon be powering trucks and marine ships. Maybe even standard commercial cars that people use at home through compressed natural gas, other gas to liquids. The potential is there for more energy independence by America and a reliance on cleaner fuel - natural gas emits half as much as coal, in terms of carbon emissions. That's a real bounty.

Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution

The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure too elaborately scientific, if once disrupted by war, revolution, natural cataclysm or epidemic, might collapse into a chaos not easily rebuilt.

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

True development must be in harmony with the needs of people and the rhythms of the natural world.

I probably would never be able to direct a comedy because I'm not that funny. I don't have that funny bone in me, so it wouldn't be a natural fit. But I love the world of science fiction, and I love the world of technology and science too.

As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

India has a natural brownness to it, a natural yellowness, a sepia tone to it, with the dust in the air.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.

Mum was a big style icon for me: her natural sexiness and natural confidence.

All of these red carpet events may seem natural for you journalists, but it doesn't feel natural for actors.

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.

The most profound question is, "What would I risk dying for?" The natural answer is "for my family." But for most of history, we didn't live in families. We lived in small communities that gave us our sense of safety and place in the world, so the natural answer would be "for my people." The blessing and the tragedy of modern life is that we don't need our community to survive anymore. When we lose that idea, we lose a sense of who we are.

There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.

The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents.

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology thus includes natural history, and much else besides.

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

Do nothing that is not natural - and ritual is natural - and all will be for the best.

A natural right in the strict sense is that which is naturally under a person's control, his body with its faculties of movement, feeling, thought, and speech. By extension, a natural right is what a person brings under his control without violating any other person's natural rights.

When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world.

My natural way is when I'm live; I'm like that in natural conversation as well, a bit filthy.

It's perversion. Don't you see what it is? It's not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that's natural. To reach out to take it, that's human, that's natural. But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking. Don't you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?

Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.

There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

As a scientist, of course, we have to believe there is no supernatural. There are only natural entities in the universe. And those are the things that we study as natural scientists.

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

A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete, babies are almost the only remaining link in nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.

I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.

All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.

Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?

These are rare moments in an actor's life, where you're put in an environment which is so natural, and you get natural performances.

I try to avoid giving advice. The only advice I will give is to pay attention. I don't mean to the screen in your hand. I'm talking about the natural world. I spent a lot of time educating my children about nature by putting them in nature. I said, "I want you to listen; I want you to look." There's so much technology coming into our lives that takes us away from the natural stuff, so I'm pushing the other way.