Quotes About Natural

Now for reasons that have to do with the increase of the artificial, the move away from ancestral and natural models, and the loss in robustness owing to complications in the design of everything, the role of Black Swans in increasing.

that the burden of evidence is on those who disturb natural systems

When constrained systems, those hungry for natural disorder, collapse, as they are eventually bound to, since they are fragile, failure is never seen as the result of fragility. Rather, such failure is interpreted as the product of poor forecasting.

When you consider beliefs in evolutionary terms, do not look at how they compete with each other, but consider the survival of the populations that have them.

Lo único que digo aquí es que no debemos estar ciegos a la antifragilidad natural de los sistemas ni a su capacidad para cuidarse solos, y que debemos reprimir la tendencia a dañarlos y fragilizarlos negándoles la ocasión de hacerlo.

To understand progress: all places we call ugly are both man-made and modern, never natural or historical.

The freer Nero's time, the more compelled he felt to compensate for lost time in filling gaps in his natural interests

Since procrastination is a message from our natural willpower via low motivation, the cure is changing the environment, or one's profession, by selecting one in which one does not have to fight one's impulses.

She did not move. And about her the entire house, the street, seemed to encourage her, seemed to consider this motionlessness natural.

So we can say that thinking independently—about our work, our relationships, the values that guide our life, the goals we set for ourselves—strengthens self-esteem. And healthy self-esteem results in a natural inclination to think independently.

Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.

I'm scared," he says. "I know," says the nurse. "I want you all to go to Hell." "That's natural.

virtud, al contrario, es artificial, sobrenatural, pues han hecho falta, en todas las épocas y en todas las naciones, dioses y profetas para enseñarlas a la humanidad animalizada; el hombre, por sí solo, habría sido incapaz de descubrirla. El mal se hace sin esfuerzo, naturalmente, por fatalidad; el bien es siempre producto de un arte.

Crime, the taste for which the human animal acquired in his mother's belly, is originally natural. Virtue, on the contrary, is artificial, supernatural, since in all times and nations, gods and prophets were necessary to teach it to animalized man, and since man alone would have been powerless to discover it. Evil is done without effort, naturally, by fatality.

American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.

the indigenous arsenal of cure.

The passenger pigeon remained an emblem of natural bounty, but now it also represented the squandering of that bounty. In 1947 the conservationist Aldo Leopold dedicated a monument to the pigeon near the site of its greatest recorded nesting, at which hunters slaughtered 1.5 million birds. The plaque read: "This species became extinct through the avarice and thoughtlessness of man.

The word temporal means subject to change. Things you are seeing with the physical, natural eye are always subject to change through spiritual law.

I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most.

A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.

Finally, it may not be a logical deduction, but to my imagination it is far more satisfactory to look at such instincts as the young cuckoo ejecting its foster-brothers, ants making slaves, the larvae of ichneumonidae feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars, not as specially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences of one general law leading to the advancement of all organic beings—namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Sexual selection will also be largely dominated by natural selection tending towards the general welfare of the species.

El aislamiento también es un elemento importante en la modificación de las especies por medio de la selección natural. En un área limitada o aislada, si no es muy grande, serán generalmente casi uniformes las condiciones orgánicas e inorgánicas de la vida, de modo que la selección natural tenderá a modificar de la misma manera a todos los individuos que varíen en la misma especie.

puede llegar a deducir que las especies no han sido creadas independientemente, sino que han descendido como variedades de otras especies.