#natura

Laine had been very proud of herself last night. Nicholas had talked about ghosts and magic and woven a bit of a spell himself. He'd sounded so convincing, so logical, so sad, that she'd found herself wanting to believe him. But testing prods at his argument had made him angry, and long years with Gavin had taught her that angry, defensive people shared the lousy habit of being wrong. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#charisma #conning #defensiveness #pride #supernatural

The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue. ↗

— Tim Yeo

#climate #climate change #conservative #discussion #four

There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study. ↗

— Ovadia Yosef

#disasters #little #natural #natural disasters #study

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer ↗

— Dan Simmons

#humankind #natural-order #change

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever! ↗

— Eliot Ness

#after #dangerous #excitement #felt #figured

Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#case #cheaper #cleaner #domestic #fuel

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude. ↗

— Pat Riley

#effort #great #great attitude #naturally #springs

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#challenging #done #ever #features #find

The raw and natural sounds of Aero music don't subtract from it's beauty, instead it creates a rich soundscape for the musician to create within. ↗

— Jim O Rourke

#aerow #arrow #music #natural #sound

I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries ago of being overwhelmed by the Turks, and how ridiculous such an idea now is! The more civilised so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#eugenics #natural-selection #nazism #racial-superiority #racism