To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim – it is their realm; the boldest of us have sometimes felt an unaccountable creeping in the thick darkness.

Be natural at heart and new in mind.

When you’re on one of the Caribbean islands, sometimes it’s hard to picture how they fit in with the rest, but when you see them all joined together like a necklace from space, you see...

It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.

First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is...

Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it’s very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.

I thought, ‘If you’re going to be on TV, and if you’re going to be out and glamorous, the natural look can stay at home.’

Social situations, for me – it’s very natural for me to be an observer. That’s where I’m most comfortable. I observe things.

When you meet the love of your life, it’s just obvious and natural and easier.

I grew up on a farm, and I had good, natural South Tyrolean food.

The term ‘natural resources’ confuses people. ‘Natural resources’ are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created.

It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and...

Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.

I don’t have any relationship with God and I’ve never wanted it. I don’t believe in fate or in any superior entity; if a plane crashes and people die, it’s not because Heaven said so.

I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.

There’s this idea that it has to be made in London. But we’ve got everything up here, and if you’ve got comics who are gifted because of where they’re from, you shouldn’t drag them away...

There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive...

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.

Northern Iraq has become, economically, a natural extension of Turkey.

I’ve no need for a limited chimney when am feeling the warmth of the motherly sun.

Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else’s simply because I know why I said what I said.

I like my women like I like my sugar—refined. Actually, I like my sugar natural, like my mannequin sex.

Happiness is gleaned from a source, which can be attributed to all experiences; it can be found wherever the individual does not mind forfeiting the option, for some sense of control.

It doubtless seems highly paradoxical to assert that Time is unreal, and that all statements which involve its reality are erroneous. Such an assertion involves a far greater departure from the natural position of mankind...

Only when man cornered,potential forced to appear.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

When it comes to creating things, I compete with nature not with men.

The sound of natural things was wonderful to us. In the middle of all the suffering, it seemed pure, untouched.

Leadership is inherent in our nature and is fundamental to our origins, our human makeup –and our destiny.

Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with...

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

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

Even the Sun gets tired of rising, but he does it out of love for the Earth…

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly...

It’s natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn’t have.

I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It’s driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we’re in the midst of an extinction crisis… This time it’s us that’s...

Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed nitrogen.

It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as...

I’ve done everything from stocking shelves at a natural food co-op, to baking bagels at Brueggers and bussing tables. Then I realized that jobs suck, but if you could get up at 6 A.M. and...

The sense of respiration is an example of our natural sense relationship with the atmospheric matrix. Remember, respiration means to re-spire, to re-spirit ourselves by breathing. It, too, is a consensus of many senses. We...

Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep…slow…breathing. Of this, the natural law of self-preservation demands.

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

I go to the Natural History Museum and look at the cage of stuffed starlings there. But my favourite thing is the big blue whale. The scale of it is unbelievable, and makes you feel...

Environmental activism against the resource industry is widespread all over the world, but at the same time we have to realise that these are basic materials on which civilisation depends. We need to tap natural...

White magic or black, it doesn’t make a difference. Natural and artificial? Obsolete distinctions

I can bench press steam, but not fog. I just have to wait until the fog lifts itself.

It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.

I’m not a natural runner. I’m friends with Ellie Goulding, and she’ll be like, ‘I’ve just done a 10K run’ and I’m like: ‘Why would you do that? How do you just do that?’ But...

On my reservation, we had one of the most abundant fisheries in the world and hundreds of thousands of acres of wild rice beds. We’ve lost a lot of it, but there’s still natural wealth...