Top 1200 Natural World Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

We're all born listeners. And as a result of our modern lives, and living in a world that has less meaning than the natural world that we evolved to hear, we learn to think of listening not as taking in all the information with equal value, which is the definition of true listening. In our modern world, we tend to think of listening as focusing our attention on what is important and filtering out everything else.

If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it - which is what mothers do with their children - then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.

It's Niagara Falls. It's one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn't want to walk across it?

We see an ever-increasing move toward inter and trans- disciplinary attacks upon problems in the real world ... The system scientist has a central role to play in this new order, and that role is to first of all understand ways and means of how to encode the natural world into "good" formal structures.

To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

It doesn't take a miracle or a natural disaster to live in the world that you're after, the change is gonna happen to you

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

My husband believed 'the herb' was a natural and positive part of life, and he felt it was important to the world.

No beast has ever overcome the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening.

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

My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.

Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.

I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

Kaz's wilder work captures the great beauty of the human heart and the natural world.

No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.

For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift.

Nietzsche's 'perspectivalism' was expressly directed against the 'laughable juxtaposition of "man and world"'. But 'absolutist' accounts, too, typically try to demonstrate that human beings are integral components of the world these accounts articulate - that, for example, we are simply material bodies subject to the same natural processes as everything else.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

I think leading's about doing what's natural to you, because if you do what's natural to you guys will follow it. If you do something that's unnatural they're going to know it's forced.

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction, I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation.

The snow, the wind, the sun and the sounds of nature, can all be reminders to you that you're an integral part of the natural world.

According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings.

I think a healthy connection with the natural world actually makes us more human.

Science is... a powerful way, indeed - to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective... in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other.

The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.

Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world.

I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.

Having two families is just natural to me. I guess when you're growing up, whatever is happening around you is the natural thing.

Naturalism is a counterpart to theism. Theism says there's the physical world and God. Naturalism says there's only the natural world. There are no spirits, no deities, or anything else.

I dislike being fake the most in this world; thus, when the ambience is natural and comfortable, I find it unforgettable.

Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think it is safe to say that we know for sure that natural selection, as a process, does work. There is a mountain of experimental and observational evidence, much of it predating genetics, which shows that natural selection as a biological process works.

I know when I used to chemically straighten mine, I did it because I wasn't comfortable with my natural hair. I thought it was too poofy, too kinky. So for me, personally, when I started wearing it natural, it felt like I was blossoming because I was letting go of all the dead hair and all the parts of me that had rejected my natural state.

Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible though very unlikely that our whole world is controlled by elves. But supernatural explanations like these are simply never needed; we manage to understand the natural world just fine using reason and materialism.

The Met is such a powerful place for me because it's a natural connection between the ancient world and the modern world. And when you're dealing with ancient mythology, trying to put a modern spin on it, you really can't do much better than to call on the Met.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

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

I believe it is in the world's interest to develop environments that fully engage women and leverage their natural talents.

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

I think I'm not a natural-born salesman, for sure, but If I have a product I really believe in, I can overcome some of the shyness and get through the things that aren't natural to me.

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

Trees ask us to examine how we live in the natural world, with one another, and intrapersonally.

I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.

Do you know there are at least seven ways to view Niagara Falls ... one of the natural wonders of the world?

Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world.

In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.

Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.

When I retired from Aetna, I became part of the private equity world. It turned out to be a natural fit.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

If you squeeze and squeeze, and you don't allow the Iranians to sell any oil, then what do they have to lose by shutting the Strait of Hormuz down? And if they do that, that's 35% of all the world's oil that comes through the strait and 20% of the liquefied natural gas in the world.

I am a communicator; that seems to be my natural place. And I'll always be passionate about the world, because it's so bonkers.

The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law can be measured. Law has always been the name of that rule or principle of justice, which protects those rights. Thus we speak of natural law.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

Keep in mind that there are many neurotoxins in the world. Dozens of natural and industrial substances have neurotoxic properties.

A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if you rely on common sense.

The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.