Natural Quotes

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.

There are a lot of really funny guys who are very natural in what they do: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen.

I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.

I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

Canada and space are a natural fit.

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

When I'm scared, my natural state is to hide and run for cover.

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

I'm my own person, and I want people to know me for who I am.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

The thing with Kerry is that all of this is a natural progression, her troubles. It's a cycle.

I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.

Making the solution seem so completely inevitable and obvious, so uncontrived and natural - it's so hard!

You're one of the most natural, great singers I've heard in a long time.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.

A room is not a room without natural light.

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression.

If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

Social situations, for me - it's very natural for me to be an observer. That's where I'm most comfortable. I observe things.

It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have.

I am not a natural dancer.

There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.

I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa.

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.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.

He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted.

Failure's a natural part of life.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.

The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

I'm a natural management guy. I had forgotten that. And I forgot how much I hate it.

We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us.

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

I guess I'm just a natural warrior.

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.