“I think it's a natural fit, major league baseball and country music.” ThinkingCountryNaturalFitMajorsBaseballLeagueMajor LeagueMajor League Baseball Author:Joe Nichols
“If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.” IfsProblemWaterNaturalLandSecurityHabitConflictMajorsMassResourcesNegativeCrisisClimateClimate ChangeProductionsFarmsRefugeeRecipesScarceNatural ResourcesDisruptionMigrationRefugee CrisisFood ProductionScarce Resources Author:Michael Franti
“I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.” WayHumansNaturalInterestingBehindsEffectsEventsMajorsHuman Society Author:Simon Winchester
“In Matthew 16:19, Jesus said that He would give us the keys to the Kingdom. Faith is the major key that opens every door in the Kingdom. It is a master key. Therefore it is imperative that we understand the ways of faith. Because these keys are the ways of God the natural man cannot receive them. They are spiritually understood. They are foolishness to the natural man. When a gift of the Spirit operates. Then we are able to impart that gift to others and teach them how to function in it also.” MenWayGivingSaidAbleSpiritJesusNaturalTeachDoorsMastersKeysMajorsUnderstoodFunctionKingdomsFoolishnessImperativesImpartMatthewGifts Of The SpiritKeys To The Kingdom Author:Phil Pringle
“Right now in my life I spend much time dreaming over my visions of faith. I know this works. I would be a fool to ignore it. Remember, one of the mightiest keys in the Kingdom of Heaven is faith. Vision is a major part of faith, for we walk by faith and not by sight. Faith is directly contrasted to natural eye sight.” KnowsDreamWould BeEyeRememberHeavenNaturalWalksVisionKeysFoolRight NowMajorsSightKingdomsKingdom Of HeavenWalk By Faith Author:Phil Pringle
“My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.” NaturalMy OwnGenerationsFieldsMajorsTransformationTinySelectionPremisesNatural SelectionImmensityPaleontologyGeological Time Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.” Has BeensNaturalMajorsOddBiologyMechanismDiscoveringSelectionAdaptationNatural SelectionFundamentalistEvolutionary Biology Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it seems to be a natural inclination. ... Fighting off natural inclinations is a major Puritan virtue, and nothing that feels that good can be respectable.” FeelsSeemsFightingNaturalSleepPleasurePayVirtueMajorsAnxiousInclinationRespectablePuritanLuxuriousUnproductive Author:Barbara Holland
“A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.” HumansReasonPhilosophyHelpingPoliticalNaturalStudyDangerSucceedDemandMajorsPrejudiceMethodLocalsBiasPolitical Philosophy Author:Raymond Geuss
“Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.” WritingBookTermNaturalEnvironmentMajorsAspectSettingSettings Author:Nicholas Sparks
“I have a deep attachment to the natural world. It's a major influence on my writing, and as I look out over the wonderful snow-covered Santa Fe hills, I'm grateful for every day that I live here.” WorldWritingLooksNaturalWonderfulInfluenceMajorsGratefulSnowHillsAttachmentCoveredSantaNatural WorldSanta Fe Author:Pat Mora
“A major change is afoot as we combine both WPZ and Access into the large scale natural gas infrastructure MLP. And the team here at WPZ is very energized right now as we're on the verge of a major $1 billion boost in our annual cash flows that we expect to come from three major projects Geismar, Gulfstar and the Keathley Canyon Connector all of which have reached the commissioning stage here in the fourth quarter.” ThreeNaturalTeamStageRight NowProjectsMajorsFlowAccessBillionsScalesGasQuartersCashFourthInfrastructureAnnualsBoostVergeCanyonsLarge ScaleNatural GasCash FlowMajor ChangeConnectorsFourth Quarter Author:Alan Armstrong
“I do believe that one of the major ways that we're out of alignment with our souls is in our disconnect from nature. I feel that we have kind of lost our natural way of being connected to the planet. We need to be rooted on the planet. We experience ourselves as kind of isolated from that, and I actually think that's a great cause of the suffering that many of us are experiencing, whether consciously or unconsciously.” ThinkingWayNeedsFeelsBelieveKindSoulSufferingLostCausesNaturalPlanetsMajorsConnectedIsolatedRootedAlignment Author:Shakti Gawain
“Europe is not one of the major powers. And Africa even less so of course. But Africa has what Europe lacks: space, human resources, and natural resources while Europe has the technological innovation that Africa lacks. Together we can become a power which can count in the future.” HumansTogetherCoursesNaturalSpaceMajorsResourcesEuropeInnovationTechnologicalNatural ResourcesHuman ResourcesTogether We Can Author:Abdoulaye Wade
“The invasion of Iraq was not an unprecedented event; it really was the natural extension of a conflict with Iraq that began on August 2, 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait and occupied Kuwait, which was a major oil supplier to the United States.” StatesNaturalUnitedUnited StatesEventsConflictMajorsIraqOilExtensionsInvasionAugustUnprecedentedKuwaitSuppliers Author:Michael Klare
“Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation process within and around us. Our estrangement from nature leaves us wanting,and when we want there is never enough. Our insatiable wanting is called greed. It is a major source of our destructive dependencies and violence.” WantEnoughProblemProcessNaturalResultsViolenceSeeingCreationSourceMajorsGreedIncrediblesSeparationDestructiveWildernessAssaultDependencyInsatiableBewildermentEstrangement Author:Michael J Cohen
“Whether we experience it or not, grief accompanies all the major changes in our lives. When we realize that we have grieved before and recovered, we see that we may recover this time as well. It is more natural to recover than to halt in the tracks of grief forever. Our expectations, willingness and beliefs are all essential to our recovery from grief. It is right to expect to recover, no matter how great the loss. Recovery is the normal way .” WayWellsMayMatterBeliefRealizingNaturalLossGriefForeverOur LivesEssentialsNormalMajorsExpectationsTrackRecoveryWillingnessHaltAccompanyMajor Change Author:Judy Tatelbaum
“I therefore suggested that WWF should invite leaders from the major religions to meet together to discuss what - if any - responsibility they felt they had for the natural environment as a "sacred" entity.” IfsShouldTogetherFeltNaturalResponsibilityLeaderEnvironmentMajorsSacredWhat IfInvitesEntityNatural EnvironmentWwf Author:Prince Philip
“The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city. Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad. And our most impressive critics have commonly been such English majors, and they are squeamish about technology to this very day. So it is natural for them to despise science fiction.” KnowsMayWarFeelingsHateNaturalCitiesFictionTechnologyCollegeProudMajorsBlameScience FictionCriticsPhysicsSuitsGentlemanDullBrownChemistryDespiseEngineersPersistBe ProudImpressiveRespectableCreepyRefrigeratorsEnglish MajorQuads Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I think the whole human-induced greenhouse gas thing is a red herring... . I see climate change as due to the ocean circulation pattern. I see this as a major cause of climate change... . These are natural processes. We shouldn't blame them on humans and CO2.” ThinkingHumansWholeCausesProcessNaturalOceanMajorsRedBlameClimateClimate ChangePatternsDuesGasCirculationGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesCo2HerringRed Herrings Author:William M. Gray
“There is a major problem of unsustainability of our environment, and we're seeing it in our natural resources, peak oil is probably upon us, and it can't be sustained. We're on an unsustainable path, and at this point in history we are responsible for that. We're going to have to change our ways. We're going to have to think through this problem.” ThinkingWayProblemNaturalPathEnvironmentSeeingMajorsResourcesResponsibleOilOur EnvironmentNatural ResourcesMajor ProblemsPeak Oil Author:Edgar Mitchell
“I mean, on virtually every major issue before this country that is the natural purview of the federal government, it's important to have some specificity about what you're going to do if you want to be the president. And so I agree that, up until this point, it hasn't been a huge factor.” IfsWantMeanImportantCountryGovernmentPresidentNaturalIssuesHugeMajorsAgreeFactorsFederal GovernmentSpecificity Author:Marco Rubio
“Even those who specialize in the history of philosophy often ignore the political and cultural context, and the natural world in which their philosophers were philosophizing. This has consequences both trivial and important. If you systematically read the last fifty years of the major journals in our discipline you would be amazed at the amount of redundancy. Most of this is unacknowledged because most of us know so little about the history of our discipline and even the subfields in which we work.” IfsKnowsWorldYearsLittlesImportantPhilosophyWould BeLastsPoliticalNaturalAmountDisciplineMajorsConsequencePhilosopherFiftyAmazedJournalNatural WorldRedundancy Author:Dale Jamieson
“In my mind of course natural disaster like tsunami, and these things, also I think indirectly may relate to human behavior. But then major sort of problems actually they're due to a lack of moral principle.” ThinkingMindHumansMayProblemCoursesNaturalMoralPrinciplesBehaviorMajorsDuesDisasterRelateHuman BehaviorMoral PrinciplesNatural DisasterTsunami Author:Dalai Lama
“All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible.” PeopleWorldShouldStatesShowsNationsNaturalMajorsResourcesTownsVillageNatural ResourcesTake ControlBolivia Author:Evo Morales