#natura

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless. ↗

— Quintilian

#natural #rules #technical #useless #without

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#defy #first #forces #least #natural

Naturally, I do things my own way but I'm certainly influenced by my mother's way of doing things. ↗

— Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

#doing #i #i do #influenced #mother

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it? ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#assuming #before #body #conditions #die

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. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#grew #how #into #just #kind

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States. ↗

— Bill Owens

#am #domestic #focus #governor #i

Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#elena-michaels #supernatural #supernatural

Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?' Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#ivy #jenks #rachel-morgan #romance #supernatural

When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a history; when we contemplate every complex structure and instinct as the summing up of many contrivances, each useful to the possessor, nearly in the same way as when we look at any great mechanical invention as the summing up of the labour, the experience, the reason, and even the blunders of numerous workmen; when we thus view each organic being, how far more interesting, I speak from experience, will the study of natural history become! ↗

— Charles Darwin

#natural-history #physicalism #experience

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. ↗

— Marquis de Lafayette

#entire nation #nation #natural #people #republicanism