natural

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
82f755d	A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.	let-alone natural rich wealth	Henry David Thoreau
2fc670a	I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.	imagine imagining natural writer	Joan Didion
7c87338	"Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art." (Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in .)"	fulfillment inspirational last-words natural rules writer	Charles Dickens
1e0bec9	Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.	gertrude-stein information natural	Gertrude Stein
b21ed54	We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.	natural	Sam Harris
e8e6ec1	I'd seen glimpses of a different me. It was a different me because in those increments of time I thought I actually became a winner. The truth, however, is painful. It was a truth that told me with a scratching internal brutality that I was me, and that winning wan't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind. In a way, I had to scavenge for moments of alrightness.	brutality footprints mind natural scavenge truth winning	Markus Zusak
f80a855	Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the past as if a magician's hand were holding you aloft? As one penetrates from seam to seam, from stratum to stratum and discovers, under the quarries of Montmartre or in the schists of the Urals, those animals whose fossilized remains belong to antediluvian civilizations, the mind is startled to catch a vista of the milliards of years and the millions of peoples which the feeble memory of man and an indestructible divine tradition have forgotten and whose ashes heaped on the surface of our globe, form the two feet of earth which furnish us with bread and flowers. Is not Cuvier the greatest poet of our century? Certainly Lord Byron has expressed in words some aspects of spiritual turmoil; but our immortal natural historian has reconstructed worlds from bleached bones.	civilization cuvier discoverer discovery feeble fossils genius geology george-byron george-gordon-byron george-gordon-noel george-gordon-noel-byron georges-cuvier historian immensity lord-byron memory mind montmartre natural poet poetry science space time treatise turmoil urals	Honoré de Balzac
fe7edd0	Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.	land love natural ownership people property slaves	Robert A. Heinlein
7821b82	DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth as she walked by. Her crispy hair twinkled in the summer sun as her big proud stomach moved her on down the block while I watched, not caring whether or not she was a poem.	afro-hair big free inspirational judging judgmental natural real	Audre Lorde
13f2a60	Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of course, but it never felt natural.	natural skill sleep sleeping sleeps	Larry McMurtry
d9f877b	This world was made to be cloaked in gray. It wouldn't feel natural if the sun shone brightly all the time.	irland natural stormy weather	Darren Shan
026c05b	[...]imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost. We could then talk about some other things at dinner. For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.	food meal natural organic sustainability	Michael Pollan
035a6e1	Because the thing of it is, no matter how much you enjoy sex, there's something jolting and strangely disturbing about witnessing the sex of others. Nature has taken great pains to lay out the fundamentals of copulation so that it's impossible to get a particularly good view of the sex you're having. Because when you get right down to it, sex is a messy, gritty, often grotesque business to behold: the hairs; the abraded, dimpled flesh; the wide-open orifices; the exposed, glistening organs. And the violence of the coupling itself, primitive and elemental, reminding us that we're all just dumb animals clinging to our spot on the food chain, eating, sleeping and fucking as much as possible before our something bigger comes along and devours us.	natural sex	Jonathan Tropper

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Henry David Thoreau

2fc670a

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

imagine imagining natural writer

Joan Didion

7c87338

"Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art." (Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in .)"

fulfillment inspirational last-words natural rules writer

Charles Dickens

1e0bec9

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.

gertrude-stein information natural

Gertrude Stein

b21ed54

We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.

natural

Sam Harris

e8e6ec1

I'd seen glimpses of a different me. It was a different me because in those increments of time I thought I actually became a winner. The truth, however, is painful. It was a truth that told me with a scratching internal brutality that I was me, and that winning wan't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind. In a way, I had to scavenge for moments of alrightness.

brutality footprints mind natural scavenge truth winning

Markus Zusak

f80a855

Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the past as if a magician's hand were holding you aloft? As one penetrates from seam to seam, from stratum to stratum and discovers, under the quarries of Montmartre or in the schists of the Urals, those animals whose fossilized remains belong to antediluvian civilizations, the mind is startled to catch a vista of the milliards of years and the millions of peoples which the feeble memory of man and an indestructible divine tradition have forgotten and whose ashes heaped on the surface of our globe, form the two feet of earth which furnish us with bread and flowers. Is not Cuvier the greatest poet of our century? Certainly Lord Byron has expressed in words some aspects of spiritual turmoil; but our immortal natural historian has reconstructed worlds from bleached bones.

civilization cuvier discoverer discovery feeble fossils genius geology george-byron george-gordon-byron george-gordon-noel george-gordon-noel-byron georges-cuvier historian immensity lord-byron memory mind montmartre natural poet poetry science space time treatise turmoil urals

Honoré de Balzac

fe7edd0

Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.

land love natural ownership people property slaves

Robert A. Heinlein

7821b82

DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth as she walked by. Her crispy hair twinkled in the summer sun as her big proud stomach moved her on down the block while I watched, not caring whether or not she was a poem.

afro-hair big free inspirational judging judgmental natural real

Audre Lorde

13f2a60

Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of course, but it never felt natural.

natural skill sleep sleeping sleeps

Larry McMurtry

d9f877b

This world was made to be cloaked in gray. It wouldn't feel natural if the sun shone brightly all the time.

irland natural stormy weather

Darren Shan

026c05b

[...]imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost. We could then talk about some other things at dinner. For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.

food meal natural organic sustainability

Michael Pollan

035a6e1

Because the thing of it is, no matter how much you enjoy sex, there's something jolting and strangely disturbing about witnessing the sex of others. Nature has taken great pains to lay out the fundamentals of copulation so that it's impossible to get a particularly good view of the sex you're having. Because when you get right down to it, sex is a messy, gritty, often grotesque business to behold: the hairs; the abraded, dimpled flesh; the wide-open orifices; the exposed, glistening organs. And the violence of the coupling itself, primitive and elemental, reminding us that we're all just dumb animals clinging to our spot on the food chain, eating, sleeping and fucking as much as possible before our something bigger comes along and devours us.

natural sex

Jonathan Tropper