Natural Life Quotes

• You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Religious, Law, Names

  "Years of Minutes" by Andy Rooney, (p. 339), 2004.

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• Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

  Nam June Paik

  Strong, Jobs, War

  "Art People" by Douglas C. McGill. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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  If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

  Rachel Carson

  Life, Motivational, Family

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• In pursuit of a more natural life, perhaps we ought to sit a little less and sweat a little more.

  Ilchi Lee

  Sweat, Littles, Natural

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• Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.

  Andrew Tobias

  Men, Years, Numbers

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• Iron is the final peal of a star’s natural life.

  Sam Kean

  Stars, Iron, Finals

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• Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

  William Godwin

  Memories, Men, Life Is

  William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.73

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• I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.

  Steve Madden

  Shoes, Trouble, Natural

  "Milestone: Q&A With Steve Madden". Interview with Neil Weilheimer, footwearnews.com. February 22, 2010.

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• I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.

  K. D. Lang

  Simple, Impact, Voice

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• The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.

  Flann O'Brien

  Iron, Numbers, People

  Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library

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• The advantage of pure, and the disadvantage of impure air are experienced each time we breathe, and all who understand the causes of disease know that an impure atmosphere is most unfavourable to the enjoyment of health, and an efficient cause to shorten human existence within the natural life of man. It is therefore most desirable that decisive measures should be devised and generally adopted to ensure to all a pure atmosphere, in which to live during their lives.

  Robert Owen

  Men, Air, Atmosphere

  "The Book of the New Moral World, Vol. 3". Book by Robert Owen, 1836-1844.

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• If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves and save against a day of scarcity those substances designed to sustain your natural lives?

  Brigham Young

  Real, Bread, Scarcity

  Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.68

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• It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life.

  Jane Hamilton

  Want, Impossible, Kind

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• A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life.

  Amy Hempel

  Night, Sea, Land

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Helping Others, People, Giving

  Daisaku Ikeda (2014). “Journey of Life: Selected Poems of Daisaku Ikeda”, p.233, I.B.Tauris

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• Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England, people who wouldn't think twice about buying something oven-ready become much more upset about a chicken that they've been on a boat with, so there is probably buried in the Western psyche a deep taboo about eating anything you've been introduced to socially.

  Douglas Adams

  Thinking, Islands, People

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• I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of an emotion—the average time it takes for it to move through the nervous system and body—is only a minute and a half. After that we need thoughts to keep the emotion rolling. So if we wonder why we lock into painful emotional states like anxiety, depression, or rage, we need look no further than our own endless stream of inner dialogue.

  Tara Brach

  Moving, Book, Emotional

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• You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Home, Animal

  "The Chicago Daily Herald" Newspaper, March 1, 1990.

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• One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table becomes an altar. One works in holiness, and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools. One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs, which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul.

  Martin Buber

  Song, Voice, Soul

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• As the body cannot be sustained without corporeal food, nor continue in natural life, so without this life-giving food the soul cannot persist in the spiritual life of grace.

  Denis the Carthusian

  Spiritual, Giving, Grace

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• Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action...we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for the rest of our natural lives

  Joan Ruddock

  Climate, Action, Natural

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• The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Spiritual, Stronger, Reverence For Life

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Strength, Spiritual

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.

  Edward Abbey

  Long, Natural, Be Good

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.29, RosettaBooks

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• The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

  C. S. Lewis

  Self, Want, Natural

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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