Alfred W. Crosby Quotes

Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

Alfred W. Crosby

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• Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Day

• When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Nature
  • House

• I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Time
  • Long
  • Nature

• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

  

  Jack London
  • Nature
  • Without
  • Cannot

• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Genius

• Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Nature
  • Want
  • Man

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• 'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nature

• By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Nature
  • Goal
  • Survive

• True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.

  

  Tara Brach
  • True
  • Nature
  • Happiness

• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Wisdom
  • Patience

• I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Nature
  • Going
  • Detract

• Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Game

• The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Method
  • Analyze

• For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Creative

• We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Understanding

• The study of nature is of no significance, for painting is a conventional art, and it is infinitely more worthwhile to learn to draw after w:Holbein.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Study

• To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments, or despise them.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Men

• I don't know how not to get the flu.

  

  Alfred W. Crosby
  • Know
  • Get
  • Flu

• You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • People
  • Good
  • End

• I always wake up at the crack of ice.

  

  Joe E. Lewis
  • Up

• Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

  

  Alfred W. Crosby
  • Nature
  • Population
  • Crash