#natura

I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#bunch #committing #everybody #i #i think

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#eccentric #first #i #just #maybe

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists. ↗

— Alfred Rosenberg

#blood #conversely #downfall #great #heroes

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living? ↗

— James Rouse

#capacity #free #knowledge #lived #living

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#cannot #great #however #learned #man

When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. But unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#crisis #done #even #feel #invisible

I've never been naturally fashion conscious. I'm the kind of person who sees a whole outfit in a magazine, runs out and buys it but looks like a clown. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#buys #clown #conscious #fashion #i

I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#difficult #human #human beings #i #i think

There are millions of kids who, naturally, if we could only remember how it is - you know, you resent authority, you are impatient for change, you want to fix things up. ↗

— Thomas Foran

#change #could #fix #how #impatient

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. ↗

— Adam Smith

#administration #barbarism #being #brought #carry