#natur

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#awkward #catching #father #father time #middle

Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#around #asia #becoming #disasters #earthquakes

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#also #book #books #clumsy #creature

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. ↗

— Guy Debord

#center #chatter #chosen #condemning #consider

I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature. ↗

— Jack Dee

#any #because #been #clique #gang

There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression. ↗

— Jack Dee

#because #cheered #corner #did #expression

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#disappear #forever #hole #just #like

I sleep 75 percent of all plane trips I take. I love red-eyes from West to East. I take Ambien to make sure I sleep. I always stay on West Coast time, and I'm always so fried when I come back, I usually sleep naturally. ↗

— Trent Dilfer

#back #coast #come #east #fried

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#any #cannot #describe #disregard #human

All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#back #conditions #consciousness #context #derives