#natura

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#american #cars #come #completely #computers

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#believe #brutalized #capitalism #capitalist #deal

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.' ↗

— Levi Strauss

#chosen #eat #good #natural #species

I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me. ↗

— Sadie Frost

#dead #either #fur #i #like

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. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#balanced #biological #climate #cycles #diversity

The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#almost #brazil #capacity #china #earth

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#comes #comics #easy #election #eroded

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

— Galileo Galilei

#demonstrations #discussion #experiments #i #i think

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#come #feature #feet #grown #hands

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

— John W. Gardner

#ferocity #laws #natural #species