Natural Quotes - Page 10

• Nature stopped being natural decades ago.

  Jamais Cascio

  Being Natural, Decades

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• The national park idea has been nurtured by each succeeding generation of Americans. Today, across our land, the National Park System represents America at its best. Each park contributes to a deeper understanding of the history of the United States and our way of life; of the natural processes which have given form to our land, and to the enrichment of the environment in which we live.

  George B. Hartzog, Jr.

  Land, Ideas, America

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• The body must be regarded as a site of social, political, cultural and geographical inscriptions, production or constitution. The body is not opposed to culture, a resistant throwback to a natural past; it is itself a cultural, the cultural product.

  Elizabeth Grosz

  Past, Political, Culture

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• Talent (a natural way of thinking, feeling, or behaving) × Investment (time spent practicing, developing your skills, and building your knowledge base) = Strength (the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance)

  Tom Rath

  Thinking, Skills, Perfect

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• What you people call your natural resources our people call our relatives

  Oren Lyons

  People, Resources, Natural Resources

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• When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based on a hair-raising misapprehension of the nature of existence.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Spiritual, Suicidal, Hair

  "The Last Messiah". Essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe, 1933.

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• If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Life And Death, Mind, Metaphysical

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, 1990.

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• We're all born with an ego - it's a natural part of who we are here. We're only completely without it in death. Fighting against this during life only creates more self-judgment. Plus, only when we love our ego unconditionally are we able to accept everyone else's. This is when it stops being an issue, and your humility and magnificence really shine through.

  Anita Moorjani

  Humility, Fighting, Self

  "Dying To Be Me". Book by Anita Moorjani, 2012.

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• Sometimes people can only imagine that I live a glamorous life 24/7, which I don't. I just like the most natural and simple things. That's what makes me happy.

  Izabel Goulart

  Simple, People, Sometimes

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• The expertise displayed by each musician is jaw-dropping and it's matched by their sensitivity and taste... Lizzy Hoyt displays equal mastery of the fiddle, harp and guitar, complemented by an otherworldly voice. To top it off, she comes across as a truly natural and relaxed, people loving performer.

  Jim Sinclair

  Guitar, Voice, People

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• Become a good noticer. Pay attention to the feelings, hunches, and intuitions that flood your life each day. If you do, you will see that premonitions are not rare, but a natural part of our lives.

  Larry Dossey

  Feelings, Intuition, Attention

  Larry Dossey (2010). “The Science of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Help Us Avoid Danger, Maximize Opportunities, and Cre ate a Better Life”, p.10, Penguin

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• Providing great customer service is the most natural activity in the world. It’s fun to help others because it feels good.

  Kevin Stirtz

  Fun, Helping Others, Feel Good

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• The role of the animal messenger in the dreams of modern city-dwellers is often to recall us to our wild side, and the natural path of our energy.

  Robert Moss

  Dream, Animal, Cities

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• An ecovillage is a human scale, full-featured settlement which integrates human activities harmlessly into the natural environment, supports healthy development and can be continued into the indefinite future.

  Robert Gilman

  Support, Healthy, Development

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• In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion.

  Dave Barry

  Erosion, Mountain, Facts

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• The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.

  David A. Bednar

  Desire, Enabling, Atonement

  "The Atonement and the Journey of Mortality". www.lds.org. April 2012.

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• The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government's assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors' needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior.

  Doug Bandow

  Responsibility, Availability, Impact

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• When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic than the natural beauty.

  Marieta Maglas

  Suffering, Losing, Aesthetic

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• Early in my career I discovered that there was something really special about photographing at night that places your mind on the surface of the planet. You’re no longer just a human being walking around in the regular world. You’re a human animal striding around on the surface of the planet that’s out in the middle of the galaxy. We as a culture, we’re forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very deep connection and contact with nature. You can’t divorce civilization from nature. We totally depend on it.

  James Balog

  Divorce, Night, Animal

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• Miracles are commonplace in religious scripture. Our ancient ancestors are said to have felt Jesus' wounds, verified Muhammad's ascent to heaven, and even interacted with their respective deities directly. Today, believers have no such luxury. They are forced to rely on blind faith that these things occurred, that people were at one time able to overcome or render inert natural laws.

  David G. McAfee

  Religious, Jesus, Law

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Feb 15, 2014

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• In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.

  Pete Docter

  Hard Work, Passion, Natural Talent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Language is never fully trustworthy, but when it comes to eating animals, words are as often used to misdirect and camouflage as they are to communicate. Some words, like veal, help us forget what we are actually talking about. Some, like free-range, can mislead those whose consciences seek clarification. Some, like happy, mean the opposite of what they would seem. And some, like natural, mean next to nothing.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mean, Animal, Talking

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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• How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Intellectual, Important

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.66, Yale University Press

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• How do you change what you believe when your experience has convinced you otherwise? By creating a new experience. The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens. By the natural law of cause and effect, that new response will create new results, which you will then experience as a new reality. To reach the goal of happiness, act as though the following statement is already true: Everything that happens to me is the best thing that can happen to me.

  Chris Prentiss

  Believe, Reality, New Experiences

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.14, BookBaby

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• Welcome the back talk, because it's completely natural and normal. It's actually a sign that the new idea you've planted in your mind is taking root.

  Gay Hendricks

  Ideas, Roots, Growth

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