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Quotes About Man-made

around, beyond the trees, were the buildings. There you really did have an idea of the city as something made by man, and not as something that had just grown by itself and was simply there.
~ V.S. Naipaul
Education in Emergencies signifies that the right to education is being threatened by natural causes such as tsunamis, but also, unfortunately, by man-made causes.
~ Moza bint Nasser
I don't believe that the science is settled on man-made climate change. And so - while I live in Colorado - you see where I live. I love the environment. And - and I want to make sure we do everything we can to protect the environment. I don't want government to put artificial standards on us.
~ Ken Buck
When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.
~ Wilfred Burchett
Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation
~ Steve Jobs
I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face.
~ David Cameron
African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Even if you accept the theory of man-made climate change, wind turbines are a rotten way to reduce CO2 emissions, or to improve energy security.
~ Roger Helmer
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
~ Wangari Maathai
Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.
~ Charles Webster Hawthorne
Ill never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.
~ Cedric Richmond
A lot of problems we are facing, essentially, man made problem. Own creation. Not due to lack of intelligence.
~ Dalai Lama
We now have unshakable conviction that accident causes are man-made and that a man-made problem can be solved by men and women.
~ W.H. Cameron, 1937
Are you always like this? he asked. Loathing the very flesh on your bones, and the words of your mouth? It's only the unnatural things, she replied. When things natural they are beautiful. And what isn't natural? he asked. Everything man had made, she answered, including himself.
~ D.H. Lawrence
His comparisons between man-made machinery and the handiwork of nature produced in him a deep reverence for the latter. "Though human ingenuity may make various inventions," he wrote, "it will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple, more direct than does Nature; because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous."15
~ Walter Isaacson
Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws.
~ lee bruce iii
Markets are, in the end, man-made devices for utilitarian purposes, not a force of nature that we should not try to resist. If they end up serving the interests of only a tiny minority, as is increasingly the case, we have the right - and indeed the duty - to regulate them in the interest of greater social good.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
We need to make power a public utility to end man-made energy disasters and ensure that no family ever has to choose between keeping the lights on or feeding their kids.
~ Jamaal Bowman
Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
~ Jasper Fforde
Hardship is a man-made device because man cannot exist without passion. Religion is somewhere between fear and sex.
~ Jeanette Winterson
The streets of New York are entirely man-made and unmistakably that, so you feel as though you're on some sort of presentation platform whenever you're out on the streets.
~ Tony Kushner
Differences exist in practice and organization between the Lord's Church and man-made institutions.
~ Russell M. Nelson
He said we live under grace and not law. He said as followers of Christ our goal is to live like Jesus did and not worry about man-made laws. He said we should strive for purity, not conformity.
~ Tricia Goyer
She was done, gone. She had been comfortable, and comfort is the death of the soul, which is by nature searching, insistent, unsatisfied. This dissatisfaction drives the soul to leave, to get lost, to be lost, to struggle and adapt. And adaptation is growth, and growth is life. A human's choice is either to see new things, mountains, waterfalls, deadly storms and seas and volcanoes, or to see the same man-made things endlessly reconfigured.
~ Dave Eggers