Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.

Elizabeth Kolbert

• Nature
• Imagine
• Harmony

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• Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Survival

• I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Music
  • May

• The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Love
  • True
  • Nature

• We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Nature

• I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.

  

  Barbara Block
  • Nature
  • Parents
  • Me

• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Nature
  • Passion
  • Flame

• Sunlight is painting.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Painting
  • Sunlight

• I think that the question is very clear-cut, not only as a matter of ethics, but also as a matter of law, that a lawyer should not be aiding and abetting in a fraudulent scheme, and part of that aiding and abetting would be to draw up subsequent documents in order to conceal the true nature of the scheme from federal investigators.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Up
  • True
  • Nature

• I do think I tend to have a darker nature than most.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Most

• We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Nature
  • Political
  • Science

• Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Nature
  • Fear
  • Best

• I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try to be kind to myself when I've made big mistakes.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Good
  • Nature

• My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Life
  • Nature

• Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Nature
  • Changes
  • Global

• Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Age

• Nor doomsday’s thunderous roar,Dismantling earth and stars - The cosmic beauties all to mar - Not Nature’s murderous mutiny,Nor man’s exploding destinyCan touch me here.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Nature
  • Earth

• Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Nature

• Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!

  

  Kate Morton
  • Hope
  • Imagine
  • Event

• I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.

  

  Albert Gallatin

• I remember Terry being exhausted from his latest Super Bowl win and all the things that go with it.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Remember
  • Win
  • Go

• God has given to Man an absolute right to take the lives of other animals, for any reasonable cause, such as the supply of food; but He has not given to Man the right to inflict pain, unless where necessary.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • God
  • Food
  • Pain

• Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Nature
  • Imagine
  • Harmony