“The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended.” KindFormNatureNaturalConsciousnessColorDelightScentSuspendedIntoxicationNatural ThingsHamper Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.” WayTryingKindLittlesNaturalTypeMusicianJazzBoxesThreadBaroque Author:Jerry Lee Lewis
“In a way, being raised on the farm and doing chores and stuff it's a natural thing for me to want to work outside. It's almost kind of like a rehabilitation for me with doing that.” WayWantKindStuffNaturalRaisedWork OutFarmsChoresRehabilitationNatural Things Author:Hank Williams III
“The way Woody Allen directs, there isn't a lot of direction. He kind of might give a few gentle suggestions, but he really says right from the first day, "Just make it sound natural, and if you don't like something, put it in your own words." And [Woody Allen] gives you a lot of freedom and just very polite.” IfsWayGivingFirstsKindMightSoundNaturalGentleSuggestionsPoliteLike SomethingWoody Author:Owen Wilson
“When we make films - even 2D films - you're always trying to create this illusion of 3D, anyway. You're trying to create a believable world with characters walking, in and out of the perspective, to create the illusion that there's a world. The desire and drive to create this illusion of three-dimensional space is something that is true about every kind of film because you want the audience to really be experiencing it, first hand. It's a natural extension of the storytelling and the process of filmmaking.” WorldWantTryingFirstsKindCharacterHandsFilmDesireThreeProcessNaturalSpaceAudiencePerspectiveWalkingIllusionStorytellingFilmmakingExtensionsAlways TryingBelievable Author:Rob Minkoff
“Regardless of how you feel about peak oil or global warming, the increased use of natural gas is a positive thing because it is being found at a rate that is faster than that of new oil reserves, it is relatively abundant, and our reserves are longer lived than our oil reserves... It does not get the kind of attention it deserves.” FeelsKindDoeUseFoundNaturalAttentionDeserveRateOilFasterGlobal WarmingGasReservesHow You FeelPositive ThingsNatural GasPeak Oil Author:Robert Bryce
“I don't think you can guess what people will really like. You have to come at it from a more natural place and then kind of hope that your taste is shared by enough people to keep going.” PeopleThinkingKindEnoughNaturalLike YouTasteKeep GoingReally Like You Author:Jonathan Nolan
“I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot. I don't know if it's maybe from being on films that's often playing Harry [Potter] or I just think it's a natural thing that I have. It's something that I think about just because it's fascinating in a very alien kind of way.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayKindPersonsFilmNaturalAliensFascinatingHarry PotterPottersMorbidNatural Things Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“All of my experience of studying religion, studying spirituality, studying natural healing, traditional medicine, has kind of enriched my vision of the world. Not only seeing reality as this moment, but as a culmination of all of the history behind us, and all of the fruit that hopefully we will be able to grow from the seeds that we are trying to plant, of goodness and peace and beauty and equality.” WorldTryingKindMomentsRealityAbleSpiritualityGrowsNaturalHealingBehindsVisionStudySeeingGoodnessMedicinePlantFruitSeedsTraditionalHopefullyCulminationNatural Healing Author:Assata Shakur
“I've always relied on discipline to achieve goals great and small. At a young age, my father instilled a real work ethic in me - and a fear of men. I always felt like if I didn't have a natural knack for something, I could kind of out-discipline the competition as it were. So I would always work as hard as I possibly could, sometimes to my own detriment and my personal life. For me, I think will power and discipline are very synonymous.” IfsThinkingMenKindRealSometimesHardAgeYoungFatherFeltGoalNaturalMy OwnAchieveDisciplineEthicsCompetitionPersonal LifeWork EthicYoung AgeWill PowerKnackReal WorkAchieving Goals Author:Ryan Reynolds
“I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.” PeopleBelieveKindChildrenDifferentPlayNaturalActingAll KindsPretendingDifferent PeoplesSpoiledMake BelieveYoungest ChildPlaying Make Believe Author:Katherine Heigl
“I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made by humans, rather than being natural phenomenon likes trees or rocks, I just wanted to be one of the people who did that. So I was copying all kinds of cartoons that I was reading, comic books, and eventually learned how to draw cartoon books step-by-step and just, I don't know, I'm not an especially quick learner, but I sure was a dedicated one.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHumansKindHas BeensMadeBookWantedYoungReadingNaturalStepsTreeRocksDrawsLikesAll KindsComicPhenomenonDedicatedComic BookCartoonLearnersCopyingNatural PhenomenaBeing Natural Author:Art Spiegelman
“I never really thought about getting married - it just kind of happened. It seemed natural, the right thing to do. It was kind of a celebration of the time.” KindNaturalHappenedMarriedThings To DoRight ThingCelebrationGetting Married Author:Scarlett Johansson
“I'm extremely interested in science as the mythos within which I live. Science tells me what kind of animal I am, what kind of a universe I live in. It's always deepening my understanding of the natural world.” WorldKindUniverseUnderstandingNaturalAnimalNatural World Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“That's the way to get young people. Once they see there are wonderful things to hunt for, to rediscover a species that was thought to be extinct or is extremely rare, to be the first to see a nest, to discover a new species unsuspected close to your home - these are things, I think, with a little education and excitement and the right kind of natural history would actually start a movement that makes going back to nature a profitable adventure.” PeopleThinkingWayFirstsKindLittlesHomeYoungNaturalWonderfulMovementAdventureSpeciesExcitementWonderful ThingsHuntsProfitableNestsNatural History Author:E. O. Wilson
“There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his own pleasure, even if it harms others; the natural man, who wants to please both himself and others; and the spiritual man, who wants to please only God, even if it harms himself. The first is lower than human nature, the second is normal, the third is above nature; it is life in Christ.” IfsMenWantFirstsHumansKindSpiritualThreeChristNaturalPleasureHuman NaturePleaseNormalThirdsHarmAsceticism Author:Tito Colliander
“Hopefully there will come a time when I have no words, when I can honor and hold that kind of stillness that I so need, crave, and desire in the natural world.” WorldNeedsKindI CanDesireNaturalHonorHopefullyStillnessCraveNatural World Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams