With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done.
Racism is a part of human nature, and you’re not going to eradicate it; all you can do is try to keep it in check.
Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways.
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.
Fracking kills, and it doesn’t just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.
Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.
The body is both a temple and a perfect machine. Our bodies have within them a healing potential, and we nourish this potential with the pure and simple foods found in nature.
In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.
I’m very inspired by nature – you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
Revolutions are all based on the false idea that humans and their nature can be changed.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
I usually don’t like to ‘spoon feed’ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.
I used to ski across the vast white expanses of a quiet and lonely mountaintop. In the stillness and solitude… I pondered the mysteries of the universe, the planet, nature and of man. I’m still pondering.
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years.
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
I’m very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog – It’s the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don’t expect.
