Quotes About Discovering Nature

#1. Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature's pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical farming. The appeal of organic farming is boundless; this mountain has no top, this river has no end.

Eliot Coleman

#2. Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.

Guy Finley

#3. A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.

Samuel Johnson

#4. History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

David Hume

#5. For discovering one's true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and to investigate the inner world. That may help.

Dalai Lama

#6. Who was I now - woman or man? That question could never be answered as long as those were the only choices; it could never be answered if it had to be asked.

Leslie Feinberg

#7. Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

George C. Marshall

#8. It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

Alain De Botton

#9. Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

Sharon Salzberg

#10. There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

R. Lee Ermey

#11. The Crooked Man believed that whatever evil lay in men was there from the moment of their conception, and it was only a matter of discovering its nature in a child.

John Connolly

#12. I have an interest in getting government officials to talk to me about National Security affairs. You know, that's my bread and butter; that's how I make my living.

Scott Shane

#13. By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

O. Henry

#14. I eventually want to be the anchor of the first trillion-dollar company.

Kanye West

#15. What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?

Guy Finley

#16. I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the time, musical questions for people to figure out, and I'm not going to get in the way of that.

Mike Patton

#17. Not by discovering new wow things you are able to understand the truth about nature, but by changing the very fundamental way of perceiving anything you've ever seen in daily life.

Toba Beta

#18. If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.

Terry Brooks

#19. She was right. The thought circled round Madelyn's mind as she lay in the blankets they'd piled in front of the hearth and watched the Yule log burn. Her home had never looked more beautiful.

Jess Schira

#20. Shouldn't an important part of discovering yourself be discovering what you family was like? Whichever side you favor in the nature versus nurture argument, who your parents are certainly helped shape who you are.

Quinn Cummings

#21. Five years ago I was in love with you so utterly I thought I might go mad from it.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#22. The fit is my main focus, I want the fit to be great and that's the focal point for me.

Beth Ditto

#23. An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him.

John Dewey

#24. I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

Alan Lee

#25. John [to Sherlock]: You're incredible. A genius. A good friend. And a lousy driver.

Guy Adams

#26. I cannot stand no wack MC.
So step back if you please,
And don't test me, you're history.

Del Tha Funkee Homosapien

#27. The majority of modern medicines originate in nature. Although some mushrooms have been used in therapies for thousands of years, we are still discovering new potential medicines hidden within them.

Paul Stamets

#28. Jason said, "Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe."
What does the 'T' stand for?"
'The.

Douglas Coupland