Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?
Quotes to Explore
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
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Sunlight is painting.
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I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.
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I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.
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Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
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When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character are as unknowable as the weather's rationale.
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Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.
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When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.
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Since the show started, Scottish tourism has increased a great deal - there is definitely an 'Outlander' effect.
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She'd been a hard taskmistress - How can you be a grown-up if you can't look after yourself? she'd challenged - but she had taught him what no Greek mother ever taught a son: the basic humdrum skills required for independence.
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Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?
