“Haagen-Dazs (a clever Scandi-sounding name invented by Americans in 1961) was bought for its Euro-sounding sophistication by the kind of Americans who first bought those Mercs and Beemers, while Ben & Jerry's (now owned by Unilever) brought a post-hippy sensibility to bear. Buyers saw the brand as saying 'all-natural, organic and Fairtrade.” FirstsKindNamesNaturalSawsBearsCleverBrandsPostsSensibilityJerryEuroSophisticationBuyers Author:Peter York
“Nature is indeed a specious ward, nay, there is a great deal in it if it is properly understood and applied, but I cannot bear to hear people using it to justify what common sense must disavow. Is not Nature modifed by art in many things? Was it not designed to be so? And is it not happy for human society that it is so? Would you like to see your husband let his beard grow, until he would be obliged to put the end of it in his pocket, because this beard is the gift of Nature?” PeopleIfsHumansArtEndsWould BeGrowsNatureNaturalDealsCommonBearsHusbandUnderstoodCommon SensePocketsJustifyObligedBeardNot HappyHuman SocietyYour Husband Author:Mary Wortley Montagu
“It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.” HumansTwoCharacterValuesNaturalCreationBearsArchitectureImpressionHuman Power Book:The seven lamps of architecture Source: The seven lamps of architecture
“The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today.” TodayUsedNaturalDifferencesBearsStandardsResourcesNatural ResourcesStandards Of LivingCavemen Book:Knowledge And Decisions Source: Knowledge And Decisions
“You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.” IfsStillsWholeMightPoetryPurposeUniverseImaginationNaturalDealsMoralFoolBearsEvolutionConscienceIntelligenceAccidentsProofSignificanceMetaphysicsSelectionDecencyUnnaturalThoroughNatural SelectionRascalsAppropriateness Author:George Bernard Shaw
“The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence.” HumansWholeReligionOrderUniverseCausesNaturalSimpleBearsPropositionsAnalogiesAmbiguousHuman IntelligenceOrder In The Universe Author:David Hume
“We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have to make to these climate changes, and so it's extremely important to bear witness to what's happening.” ImportantNaturalBearsHappeningsClimateClimate ChangeEnormousWitnessAdaptation Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming