The Natural Quotes

I think there will be radical changes. But I don't actually think that within the next 100 years the natural world will be reduced to rats and cockroaches, nor do I think that the plant world will be reduced to some kind of desert.

We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means - all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity.

In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.

The natural characters in the drama are not supposed to be philosophical, nor are they people with any refined kind of knowledge. They may be particularly blind or they may be suffering from the heaviness of the law, exactly as people have been suffering for 5000 years.

What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.

I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a little bit in economics because they talk about costs, prices and quantities of goods. But it doesn't work a darn for the other social sciences; you lose most of the content when you translate them to numbers.

He didn't play that much and he was really a skinny kid. He had the natural tools. He had good size, he could run ? stuff I'm sure the Yankees saw over time when others maybe didn't. But you couldn't tell.

There is more to it than just the natural resources story. If you look at the Canadian economy, it looks very good.

Why is it a good idea? It's sort of the natural evolution of Colonial Downs, ... We now gain control of the track and the operation of the [off-track betting parlors]. Technically, under the contract, we had very little say.

I think the league was just. I understand it's his wife, and we all have the natural instincts to protect our family. However, as professional athletes, we've always been held to a higher standard.

They're just so aesthetic. Birds are the loveliest things in the natural world to me. It's the beauty of their plumage, their song and their flight. And their design is so well-engineered.

To really, seriously, change the way the natural gas market works, it's going to take years of sincere debate among all the major players. This would involve state legislatures, federal legislatures and the natural gas companies themselves. So far, we've not seen any interest out of all the players at one time to want to do that.

The natural vegetation along the wash slows the water down and cleanses it. It improves the storm water.

We are looking at the potential to improve people's opportunities to understand and appreciate the natural and historic environment that is such a fundamental part of our nation's heritage.

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well.

We have the skills. Filipino skaters have the natural style and grace.

There is increased competition as carriers all vie for renewals in this profitable market. The natural market reaction is to drive down prices.

We're seeing the natural consequences of unbridled corporate power to reduce wages and benefits. That's why people are working two jobs and still cannot afford food.

There's a role it (the Center) symbolically plays in protection of the natural environment, and there's even more of a practical role it can play under the right leadership. This is a woman who gets it, and is willing to try new things when it comes to protection of the environment.

What they're doing has happened throughout history. It's the natural life cycle of a conglomerate.

I remember when you could drive Galveston Island, from end to end, on the natural beach. I don't think there will ever be any hope of doing that again.

I saw the error to be, that men think that it will be something seen by the natural eye; but 'tis spiritual discernment that is needed, the eye of God in his people.

This program is a broad examination of the natural history of the Maine Coast.

This property is part of the natural furniture ... that makes it the pristine river it is. That's the major reason a number of [environmentalists] oppose this rezoning. It's urbanizing a pristine river.

Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.